wcslib-contrib: moving from pgplot to giza
Hi all,
a month ago, Sergio Gelato pointed me to the "giza" library which is a
quite good replacement for PGPLOT. Since a few days, giza is now in
Debian which allows to move packages from contrib to main, if applicable.
https://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/giza
In Debian-Astro, this is the case for "wcslib-contrib" which was
separated from wcslib because of its PGPLOT dependency. I intend to
merge it with wcslib using the giza library.
https://packages.debian.org/source/testing/wcslib-contrib
This has however the consequence that programs that use f.e. libpgsbox
whould also need to switch to giza. So, if you have such a use case and
giza is not suitable for you, please raise your hand.
Otherwise I will do the merge in a few weeks (until Debconf).
The original motivation to package giza is dpuser+qfitsview, which works
surprisingly well with it. I will upload the package when upstream
provides a new release (currently it is a RC). If you are curious, you
may compile the package yourself from
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-astro/packages/dpuser.git
Cheers
Ole
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