Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Gard Spreemann <gspreem...@gmail.com>
* Package name : lbfgsb Version : 3.0 Upstream Author : Ciyou Zhu, Richard Byrd, Jorge Nocedal, Jose Luis Morales * URL : http://users.iems.northwestern.edu/~nocedal/lbfgsb.html * License : BSD-3-clause Programming Lang: Fortran Description : Limited-memory quasi-Newton bound-constrained optimization The library is a widely used implementation of a bounded, limited-memory BFGS algorithm. A search on codesearch.debian.net reveals that at least the following packages in Debian bundle duplicates of the code: - python-scipy (see also #778635) - vxl - nwchem - plastimatch - psi4 I believe that Debian should provide lbfgsb as a standalone library, as it is useful in its own right and its presence could lead to code deduplication in the future. Note that upstream's tarball (http://users.iems.northwestern.edu/~nocedal/Software/Lbfgsb.3.0.tar.gz) contains a few prebuilt binaries, and is also a minor tarbomb. Upstream seems very inactive in the sense that the code appears to be "done". I have maintained a package for personal use since 2013 and have never experienced problems. I thus feel I could handle maintaing the package also for a wider user base going forward. I would need a sponsor.