Greetings, I come bearing offerings of packages. I have a repository at [1], which includes a several powerful packages for astronomy. For the moment, the packages I wish to be considered are as follows: pport - Description: Control appliances with the parallel port pport allows arbitrary devices to be controlled through the parallel port. It sends a signal such that an electrical relay can control the power to the device. xpa - Description: Messaging system for interprocess communication The XPA messaging system provides seamless communication between many kinds of Unix programs, including X programs and Tcl/Tk programs. It also provides an easy way for users to communicate with XPA-enabled programs by executing XPA client commands in the shell or by utilizing such commands in scripts. Because XPA works both at the programming level and the shell level, it is a powerful tool for unifying any analysis environment: users and programmers have great flexibility in choosing the best level or levels at which to access XPA services, and client access can be extended or modified easily at any time. . XPA is useful to display an image in an already running DS9 imtool. sextractor - Astronomical source extractor Sextractor finds sources (like stars) in astronomical images. Its really good and finding faint stuff, much better than daofind. Each is GPL. sextracter was packaged before and removed at some point - "Never included in a stable release". I repackaged from scratch, and I've since been in contact with Florian, who updated to a new upstream version in March. I haven't run lintian on the others yet, or they have significant TODO that I'd like to finish first. I'd also like to mention that I have .debs of IRAF at ftp://iraf.noao.edu/contrib/debian/. License problems will likely prohibit IRAF in main (or even nonfree, as the maintainers of the library with the troublesome license have been unresponsive). NOAO is hosting them on their site, which is legal (they alone have redistribution rights). I think this is a fair compromise. All packages are apt-get -able and apt-get source -able. So, please contact me with questions, comments, criticisms, and, hopefully, offers of sponsorship. Thanks, Justin References [1] http://www.justinpryzby.com/debian/
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