Bug#795704: RFS: mlucas/14.1+dfsg-1 [ITP] -- program to perform Lucas-Lehmer test on a Mersenne number

[Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: wishlist

Hi mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "mlucas",

I have uploaded a new version of the package to fix issues pointed out
by Jakub Wilk,

please see previous message in the bug report to see what issues are fixed

I will now elaborate more on why this package is suitable for Debian,

feel free to skip it

__BEGIN_ELABORATION__

Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) is a collaborative
project of volunteers who use freely available software to search for
Mersenne prime numbers (quote from Wikipedia). The most popular client
`mprime' was available in Debian Potato as the package `prime-net' as
shown in this post
<http://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?t=7181>. However, it
appears the maintainer had lost interest in it because it was
classified as `non-free'. `mlucas' has been developed as an
alternative since 1996. While it is not as efficient as `mprime', it
is licensed under GPL-2+ and thus suitable to be included in `main'.
It has been used in the verification of various Mersenne primes,
including the 45th (found in 2008), 46th (found in 2009) and 48th
(found in 2013) found Mersenne prime. Therefore, the underlying
algorithm is believed to be reliable, thus suitable to be included in
Debian.

__END_ELABORATION__

* Package name    : mlucas
  Version         : 14.1+dfsg-1
  Upstream Author : Ernst W. Mayer <ewmayer@aol.com>
* URL             : http://hogranch.com/mayer/README.html
* License        : GPL-2+
  Section         : math

It builds those binary packages:

  mlucas     - program to perform Lucas-Lehmer test on a Mersenne number

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

http://mentors.debian.net/package/mlucas


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

  dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/mlucas/mlucas_14.1+dfsg-1.dsc

Changes since the last upload:

  mlucas (14.1+dfsg-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

    * Initial release (Closes: #786656)

   -- Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>  Sun, 02 Aug 2015 03:13:37 +0800

Cheers,
Alex