Debian Developers - Bug#322534: ITP: mpfi -- multiple precision floating-point in terval computation

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Bug#322534: ITP: mpfi -- multiple precision floating-point in terval computation

Laurent Fousse

2005-08-11, 5:55 pm

* Humberto Massa Guimarães [Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:39:56AM -0300]:
> Yeah, but what does it *DO*? If it is a library, it oughta be called
> libmpfi ... and it should be stated.

It is a library. The source package is called `mpfi', the binary
package is called `libmpfi-dev' (only a static library is provided).
So with the package name, section (libdevel) and last paragraph of
description this will be fairly obvious it is a library. But I am open
to improvements to the description (maybe the first two paragraphs
could be made shorter, but on first glance I thought the concept of
interval arithmetics was worth explaining).

I chose the mpfi/libmpfi-dev naming convention as was done for mpfr,
see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...cgi?bug=276085.