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Bug#978535: RFS: wxmaxima/20.12.0-1 -- GUI for the computer algebra system Maxima



Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "wxmaxima":

 * Package name    : wxmaxima
   Version         : 20.12.0-1
   Upstream Author : Gunter Königsmann <wxMaxima.physikbuch.de>
 * URL             : http://wxmaxima-developers.github.io/wxmaxima/
 * License         : CC0-1.0, GPL-2, public-domain
 * Vcs             : https://github.com/wxMaxima-developers/wxmaxima
   Section         : math

It builds those binary packages:

  wxmaxima - GUI for the computer algebra system Maxima

To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL:

  https://mentors.debian.net/package/wxmaxima/

Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:

  dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/wxmaxima/wxmaxima_20.12.0-1.dsc

If you want to know what wxMaxima actually is: It is a fast and feature-full gui frontend for maxima,
a computer algebra system that is able to do all numeric calculations you would expect from a 
mathematics program, but additionally is specializedd in not finding a number, that solves a problem
but in finding an equation that does so (and hopefully explains what the solution is all about):


(%i1)	pyth: a^2+b^2=c^2;
(%o1)	b^2+a^2=c^2

(%i2)	solve(pyth,a);
(%o2)	[a=-sqrt(c^2-b^2),a=sqrt(c^2-b^2)]

(%i3)	%[1];
(%o3)	a=-sqrt(c^2-b^2)

(%i4)	subst([c=1,b=4],%);
(%o4)	a=-sqrt(15)*%i


Changes since the last upload:

 wxmaxima (20.12.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * A new upstream version
   * The debian package now uses GTK3
   * Bumped the standards version to 4.5.0
   * Bumped the debhelper compatibility level (and min version) to 13
   * Removed debian/compat as it no more is needed in comp level 13
   * override-auto-test no honors the nocheck flag
   * Removed an no-more-needed linker flag injection
   * Dropped the workaround for the spurious COPYING file install
   * New build depends for the automatic tests: netcat-openbsd, xvfb,
     debian-file-utils and appstream-util

Regards,
-- 
  Gunter Königsmann

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