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

[Dima Pasechnik]

Upstream says they are about to make a new release, perhaps it makes sense
not to release 7.1, but go straight to 7.2. One thing that will be in 7.2
is pkg-config settings, which would make it easy for Sage to deal with. See

https://github.com/kimwalisch/primecount/issues/44#issuecomment-974833938


On Fri, 19 Nov 2021, 20:50 Jerome BENOIT, <calculus at rezozer.net> wrote:

> 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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