Re: nom-tam-fits in debian

[Florian Rothmaier <frothmaier@lsw.uni-heidelberg.de>]

Hi Richard and Ole,

I apologise for my very delayed response. I'm definitely willing to help 
updating the package. Due a deadline in my ESO project given by the 17th 
of March, unfortunately I can offer my help only after this date.

Best regards,
Florian


On 03/11/2016 10:15 AM, van Nieuwenhoven, Richard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> question when I try to register/verify I get a
>
> "Could Not Get User"
>
> something wrong?
>
>      Ritchie
>
> Am 2016-03-11 um 09:42 schrieb Ole Streicher:
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > I will try to reach Florian today as well, so that we can find a good
> > way to proceed here. Probably a shared team maintenance is the best.
> >
> > For the other questions, I would ask you to follow-up to the Debian
> > Astronomy mailing list https://lists.debian.org/debian-astro
> > Altough the fits packags is still in debian-science, I think that by
> > topic it belongs to debian-astro (and I would ask Florian to move it).
> >
> > As a documentation for start, I would recommend the New Maintainers
> > Guide, https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/
> >
> > I also write a tutorial which may be helpful, but it is a bit python
> > centric (for astropy affiliated packages):
> > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAstro/AstropyPackagingTutorial/Preparation
> >
> > Since you are going to help us in team maintenance, you should apply for
> > team membership on debian-astro and debian-science; for this first
> > create an account on https://alioth.debian.org and then look to the
> > according project pages.
> >
> > Does this help for the start? If you have any other questions, please
> > don't hesitate to ask.
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Ole
> >
> > On 11.03.2016 08:23, van Nieuwenhoven, Richard wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > As Florian seems to be unavailable, I redirect my question to the
> > > debian-science-maintainers group.
> > >
> > > We would be willing to update the package ourself, but we need some
> > > hints how to do it. And where to register and so on.
> > >
> > > As I learned in the mean time, the debain standard enforces the local
> > > build. That is ok with me, the build is a completely standard maven
> > > build, so the packaging should be easy. The release tar's are available
> > > here: https://github.com/nom-tam-fits/nom-tam-fits/releases
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help, pointing us to the right starting place.
> > >
> > > Ritchie
> > >
> > > Am 2016-02-28 um 09:52 schrieb Richard van Nieuwenhoven:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I see you are the maintainer of the debian package of nom-tam-fits. The
> > > > package is rather outdated by now.
> > > >
> > > > https://packages.qa.debian.org/libf/libfits-java.html
> > > >
> > > > As we are on GidHub now and available in the maven central repository,
> > > > we want to try to update the debian package. Best method would be to use
> > > > the artefacts deployed to central:
> > > >
> > > > https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/gov/nasa/gsfc/heasarc/nom-tam-fits/
> > > >
> > > > they are signed and readonly and available forever (central repo policy)
> > > >
> > > > we created an issue for this task:
> > > >
> > > > https://github.com/nom-tam-fits/nom-tam-fits/issues/82
> > > >
> > > > if you want to discuss this more openly.
> > > >
> > > >      Ritchie