Bug#819894: ITP Lin-guider

Package: wnpp
Owner: Rumen G. Bogdanovski <rumen@skyarchive.org>
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-astro@lists.debian.org,debian-python@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : lin-guider
Version         : 3.2.2
Upstream Author : GM software <galaxy_master@mail.ru>
* URL             : https://sourceforge.net/projects/linguider/
* License         : GPL3
Programming Lang: C++/Perl
Description     : Lin-guider is an astronomical auto guiding software for Linux.

Lin-guider is an astronomical tool for auto guiding on Linux. It supports
the following cameras for reference image capturing: Philips, Logitech, uvc
webcams, QHY5, QHY6, DSI2PRO, QHY5L-II-M, QHY5L-II-C, QHY5-II, all
Atik cameras (except GP), all Starlight Xpress cameras and all ZWO ASI
cameras. The listed above devices which are equipped with ST4 port can also
be used for guiding. In addition the flowing pulse guiding hardware can be used:
FTDI chip-based, parallel port-based (LPT), GPIO-based, GPUSB devices,
and all telescope mounts supporting Nexstar protocol.

best,

Rumen

P.S. I hope this description is better.

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 9:18 PM, Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> wrote:

Hallo,
* Rumen Bogdanovski [Tue, Apr 05 2016, 11:40:49AM]:

> > > Description : Lin-guider is an astronomical auto guiding software
> > for
> > > Linux.
> >
> > Linux-only? Debian isn't just Linux.
> >
> Yes unfortunately Lin-guider is Linux only for various reasons. I have an

Ok.

> however I do not think mas port would be of Debian's interest. Never tested
> it on FreeBSD, and most probably it would need some porting in order to
> work mainly because of video for linux which is used in some parts. Is that
> a problem that is Linux only?

Probably not, you just need to care about the target architecture list.

> > Please, please, start that sentense with some key words (supports
> > astrocams of the following types...) and format the list to some more
> > readable form. Otherwise the reader has to get through all this mess to
> > finally see the point.
> >
> How do i format it? Plain text, HTML, markdown etc?

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Description

Regards,
Eduard.