Bug#820848: ITP: phcpack -- General-purpose solver for polynomial systems

[Doug Torrance <dtorrance@piedmont.edu>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Doug Torrance <dtorrance@piedmont.edu>

* Package name    : phcpack
  Version         : 2.4.14
  Upstream Author : Jan Verschelde <jan@math.uic.edu>
* URL             : https://github.com/janverschelde/PHCpack
* License         : GPL-2+
  Programming Lang: Ada
  Description     : General-purpose solver for polynomial systems

PHCpack is a software package to solve polynomial systems by homotopy
continuation methods.

A polynomial system is given as a sequence of polynomials in several variables.
Homotopy continuation methods operate in two stages. In the first stage, a
family of polynomial systems (the so-called homotopy) is constructed. This
homotopy contains a polynomial system with known solutions. In the second stage,
numerical continuation methods are applied to track the solution paths defined
by the homotopy, starting at the known solutions and leading to the solutions of
the given polynomial system.

I intend to package PHCpack under the umbrella of the Debian Science team.