Hi Jerome, That's great to hear! Updating the primesieve debian package is not urgent but I will be glad when it's done...
Greetings, Kim On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 1:17 PM, Jerome BENOIT <calcu...@rezozer.net> wrote: > Hello All, and Kim, > primesieve does need a new maintainer: > I will work on it soon: it is the second package to refresh on my top list. > I have first to deals with normaliz on which depends SageMath. > > Thanks for your patience, > Jerome > > On 06/11/17 12:53, Kim Walisch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am the author of the primesieve C/C++ library (math tool for finding > > prime numbers). The version offered by Debian is 5.7.2 (15 months > > old) while the most recent version is 6.2. I would be happy if the > > primesieve package in Debian was updated to the latest version. > > > > Up until now Jerome BENOIT was primesieve's maintainer but he > > told me about 6 months ago that he is very busy due to a new job > > and my last contact attempt 9 days ago failed. > > > > As mentioned before primesieve is a C/C++ based library which now > > uses cmake as its build system. I have also created the GitHub repo > > https://github.com/kimwalisch/primesieve-debian which contains the > > code required to package primesieve-6.2 for debian. So there is only > > little work required to package primesieve-6.2. > > > > Please get in touch with me if you are willing to take over primesieve > > maintainership. > > > > Best regards, > > Kim > > -- > Jerome BENOIT | calculus+at-rezozer^dot*net > https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=calcu...@rezozer.net > AE28 AE15 710D FF1D 87E5 A762 3F92 19A6 7F36 C68B > >
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