[Debian-science-sagemath] plans to package primecount (the C++ library)

[Jerome BENOIT]

Hi, thanks for the clarification.
I got that upstream makes things a bit complicated here.


On 19/11/2021 20:25, Julien Puydt wrote:
> Le vendredi 19 novembre 2021 à 19:22 +0100, Jerome BENOIT a écrit :
>>   I am getting confused.
> 
> If I understood Dima's explanations:
> 
> - upstream vendors its own libprimesieve in primecount ;
> 
> - but you can define a switch to when compiling primecount, it doesn't
> use the vendored one but the system one.
> 
> I would say a d/copyright eliminating the vendored version and a small
> patch to make the vendor-switch off by default will do the trick.

I agree.

> 
> I can start on it monday if you don't want to.

I guess it would make a better sense if I package it.
I am familiar with the upstream maintainer.
And at one point, the packages might merge.


Best wishes,
Jerome
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> J.Puydt
> 
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