Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal [important for RC bugs, wishlist for new packages]
Dear mentors,
Sorry that I have to bother you again but I am again looking for a
sponsor for my package "wxmaxima": This time I found a bug before
anybody else did.
* Package name : wxmaxima
Version : 17.10.0-2
Upstream Author : [fill in name and email of upstream]
* URL : [fill in URL of upstreams web site]
* License : [fill in]
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_17.10.0-2.dsc
wxMaxima is a powerful graphical front-end for maxima, a program that
does symbolic algebra. An example:
(%i1) val:[
a=10,
b=sqrt(2),
c=5
];
(val) [a=10,b=sqrt(2),c=5]
(%i2) poly:y=a*x^2+b*x+c$
(%i3) solve(poly,x);
(%o3) [x=-(sqrt(4*a*y-4*a*c+b^2)+b)/(2*a),x=(sqrt(4*a*y-4*a*c+b^2)-b)/(2*a)]
(%i4) subst(y=0,%);
(%o4) [x=-(sqrt(b^2-4*a*c)+b)/(2*a),x=(sqrt(b^2-4*a*c)-b)/(2*a)]
(%i5) subst(val,%);
(%o5) [x=-(3*sqrt(22)*%i+sqrt(2))/20,x=(3*sqrt(22)*%i-sqrt(2))/20]
(%i6) rectform(float(%));
(%o6)
[x=-0.7035623639735145*%i-0.07071067811865477,x=0.7035623639735145*%i-0.07071067811865477]
Don't know why mentors.debian.net doesn't like my watchfile: uscan does.
If anybody has an idea how to make it work for mentors, too, I will
prepare a new wxMaxima package that fixes this.
Changes since the last upload:
Added a patch that corrects a regression in the last upstream release
(output sometimes was appended a few cells too far below in the worksheet).
Regards,
Gunter Königsmann
