Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Dear mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "lbfgsb" * Package name : lbfgsb Version : 3.0-1 Upstream Author : Ciyou Zhu, Richard Byrd, Jorge Nocedal and Jose Luis Morales * URL : http://users.iems.northwestern.edu/~nocedal/lbfgsb.html * License : BSD-3-clause Section : math It builds these binary packages: liblbfgsb-dev - Limited-memory quasi-Newton bound-constrained optimization (static library) liblbfgsb0 - Limited-memory quasi-Newton bound-constrained optimization liblbfgsb0-dbg - Limited-memory quasi-Newton bound-constrained optimization (debug symbols) Note that upstream's tarball [1] contains precompiled binaries, and is also a minor tarbomb. I have therefore repackaged it. You will find that my orig tarball is a strict subset of upstream's. My package includes two patches: - replace-linpack-with-lapack.patch: The library code originally uses LINPACK (from an embedded copy). Since LINPACK has largely been superseded by LAPACK, this patch replaces calls to the former with equivalent calls to the latter. Specifically, dpofa is replaced by dpotrf, and dtrsl is replaced by dtrtrs. - silence.patch: The library's documentation indicates that it will only write out messages when the iprint flag is greater than zero. There are two places where writing still happens unconditionally, which this patch fixes. A similar patch was also applied by the SciPy project (see their issue 3238). I've used the patched package on and off for the past few years and have not encountered problems. To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: http://mentors.debian.net/package/lbfgsb Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/l/lbfgsb/lbfgsb_3.0-1.dsc More information about lbfgsb can be obtained from [2]. [1] http://users.iems.northwestern.edu/~nocedal/Software/Lbfgsb.3.0.tar.gz [2] http://users.iems.northwestern.edu/~nocedal/lbfgsb.html Regards, Gard Spreemann