Package: sponsorship-requests Severity: wishlist Hi mentors,
I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mlucas", I have uploaded a new version of the package to fix issues pointed out by Jakub Wilk, please see previous message in the bug report to see what issues are fixed I will now elaborate more on why this package is suitable for Debian, feel free to skip it __BEGIN_ELABORATION__ Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) is a collaborative project of volunteers who use freely available software to search for Mersenne prime numbers (quote from Wikipedia). The most popular client `mprime' was available in Debian Potato as the package `prime-net' as shown in this post <http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=7181>. However, it appears the maintainer had lost interest in it because it was classified as `non-free'. `mlucas' has been developed as an alternative since 1996. While it is not as efficient as `mprime', it is licensed under GPL-2+ and thus suitable to be included in `main'. It has been used in the verification of various Mersenne primes, including the 45th (found in 2008), 46th (found in 2009) and 48th (found in 2013) found Mersenne prime. Therefore, the underlying algorithm is believed to be reliable, thus suitable to be included in Debian. __END_ELABORATION__ * Package name : mlucas Version : 14.1+dfsg-1 Upstream Author : Ernst W. Mayer <ewma...@aol.com> * URL : http://hogranch.com/mayer/README.html * License : GPL-2+ Section : math It builds those binary packages: mlucas - program to perform Lucas-Lehmer test on a Mersenne number To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL: http://mentors.debian.net/package/mlucas Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mlucas/mlucas_14.1+dfsg-1.dsc Changes since the last upload: mlucas (14.1+dfsg-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * Initial release (Closes: #786656) -- Alex Vong <alexvong1...@gmail.com> Sun, 02 Aug 2015 03:13:37 +0800 Cheers, Alex