Bug#993009: RFP: cimfomfa -- tingea library for mcl

[Joost van Baal-Ilić <joostvb@debian.org>]

retitle 993009 ITP: cimfomfa -- tingea library for mcl and zoem
thanks


 * Package name    : cimfomfa
   Upstream Author : Stijn van Dongen <stijn@micans.org>
   URL             : https://github.com/micans/cimfomfa
 * License         : GPL-3+
   Programming Lang: C
   Description     : C utility library libtingea for MCL and zoem

Long description:

cimfomfa is used by both MCL, a cluster algorithm for graphs, and zoem,
a macro/DSL language. It supplies abstractions for memory management, I/O,
associative arrays, strings, heaps, and a few other things.
The tingea library comes with some testing programs.

On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 08:01:16PM +0100, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 02:05:33PM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 11:26:55AM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote:
> > > Upstream published a git snapshot prerelease of cimfomfa, at
> > > http://micans.org/phloobaz/cimfomfa-21-101.tar.gz .  The upcoming mcl
> > > tarball will need cimfomfa to build, a git snapshot prerelease of
> > > upcoming mcl is available from
> > > http://micans.org/phloobaz/mcl-21-100.tar.gz .  (We ship the mcl
> > > package.)
> 
> BTW, the mcl code is maintained at public repository
> https://github.com/micans/mcl .

And btw, the zoem code is maintained at the not yet public repository
at https://github.com/micans/zoem/ .

> > > It would be cool if the Debian Med Packaging Team at
> > > https://salsa.debian.org/med-team could take up maintainership of this
> > > library.
> <snip>
> 
> Or maybe zoem (debian-science), mcl (debian-med) and cimfomfa could all be
> maintained by https://salsa.debian.org/math-team .  Since these packages will
> now share dependencies, maybe that would work best.  Or would it be better to
> move zoem from debian-science to debian-med?  Andreas Tille, Shayan Doust: any
> opinions?

Bye,

Joost