Re: Bug#641624: ITP: wcslib -- Implementation of the FITS WCS standard

[Andrey Ponomarenko <aponomarenko@ispras.ru>]

On 09/14/2011 10:02 PM, Ole Streicher wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Ole Streicher<debian@liska.ath.cx>
>
>
> * Package name    : wcslib
>    Version         : 4.8
>    Upstream Author : Mark Calabretta<mcalabre@atnf.csiro.au>
> * URL             : http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/mcalabre/WCS/
> * License         : GPLv3+
>    Programming Lang: C
>    Description     : Implementation of the FITS WCS standard
>
> WCSLIB is a C library, supplied with a full set of Fortran wrappers, that
> implements the "World Coordinate System" (WCS) standard in FITS (Flexible
> Image Transport System).
> .
> The FITS data format is widely used within the international astronomical
> community, from the radio to gamma-ray regimes, for data interchange and
> archive, and also increasingly as an online format.

Setting up an upstream tracker [1] for wcslib ...

[1] http://linuxtesting.org/upstream-tracker/versions/wcslib.html

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