Fwd: ITP: pluto-jpl-eph -- command line handling of JPL ephemeres data

[Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>]

FYI:

https://bugs.debian.org/891852

On 01.03.2018 17:07, Steffen Möller wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Steffen Moeller <moeller@debian.org>
> 
> * Package name    : pluto-jpl-eph
>   Upstream Author : Bill Gray
> * URL             : https://github.com/Bill-Gray/jpl_eph
> * License         : GPL-2
>   Programming Lang: C++
>   Description     : command line handling of JPL ephemeres data
> 
> The package is prepared on
> https://salsa.debian.org/debian-astro-team/pluto-jpl-eph

There is also an ongoing discussion on debian-legal about the legal
status of the JPL ephemeres data (and about research data in general).

https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2018/02/msg00008.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2018/03/

Since the package itself is useless without JPL data itself, it may be
useful to coordinate the packaging of theses data. Additionally to
pluto-jpl-eph, JPL data are used in wsjtx and in casacore; therefore
Dave is Cced as potential packager for wsjtx.

@Steffen, it should probably go into the "astro-tools" metapackage, right?

Best regards

Ole