ITP: erfa -- Image visualization and access to catalogs and data for astronomy

[Ole Streicher <debian@liska.ath.cx>]

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Owner: Ole Streicher <debian@liska.ath.cx>
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* Package name    : erfa
  Version         : None released yet
  Upstream Author : IAU SOFA Board
* URL             : https://github.com/liberfa/erfa
* License         : BSD3
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Image visualization and access to catalogs and data
for astronomy
 ERFA is a C library containing key algorithms for astronomy, and is
 based on the SOFA library published by the International Astronomical
 Union (IAU).
 .
 It is intended to replicate the functionality of SOFA (aside from
 possible bugfixes in ERFA that have not yet been included in SOFA),
 but is licensed under a three-clause BSD license to enable its
 compatibility with a wide range of open source licenses. Permission
 for this release has been obtained from the SOFA board.

The intention of this package is to replace the iausofa_c package. Since
the prefix of all functions changed from iau_ to erfa_, the dependent
packages need to be patched to use erfa. These are the packages
"starlink-pal" and "python-astropy".

Best

Ole