Bug#881118: RFS: boost-numeric-bindings/0.99-1 [ITP] -- Numeric Library Bindings for Boost

[Stephen Sinclair <radarsat1@gmail.com>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: wishlist

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "boost-numeric-bindings":

* Package name    : boost-numeric-bindings
  Version         : 0.99
  Upstream Author : Kresimir Fresl et. al.
* URL             : https://github.com/uBLAS/numeric_bindings
* License         : Boost Software License - Version 1.0
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : boost-numeric-bindings -- Numeric Library Bindings for Boost


Boost Bindings is a bindings library (not just) for Boost.Ublas.
It offers an easy way of calling BLAS, LAPACK, UMFPACK, MUMPS and
many other mature legacy numerical codes from within C++.

The package source may be found at:

http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-science/packages/boost-numeric-bindings.git

And the package description may be found at:

https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/b/boost-numeric-bindings/boost-numeric-bindings_0.99-1.dsc

Previously an ITP bug was filed by someone else (#536270) but then
dropped.  Since then a github repo was created by an upstream author
and a "pre-release 0.99" was released with a bit more work, in 2015.
I have updated the preliminary package by Teemu Ikonen from that bug
to the latest version, as well as the latest Debian compat and policy
versions.

This version of the package installs the header files to the
/usr/include/boost directory.

Please note that this version 0.99 did not include a LICENSE file in
the main directory, however all files nonetheless still have a
reference to their license at the top and it remains the same as in
debian/copyright.  (I have filed an upstream issue to restore the
license file.)

Preliminary support for running some of the tests should hopefully
come in the near future.  I intend to improve this, add documentation
if possible, and keep it up to date with any future releases.  It
would be beneficial to Debian to have these headers more easily
available, since projects are currently often embedding them in their
source distributions.