Re: Bug#719720: RFS: skycat/3.1.2+starlink1~b-1 [ITP]

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

Hi Anton,

Am 14.08.2013 20:16, schrieb Anton Gladky:
> why is the tarball on mentors different from that one, which is on the
> website?

I did not use the tarball provided by ESO but the one provided by
Starlink
<https://github.com/Starlink/skycat/archive/v3.1.2-starlink-1b.tar.gz>.
Reasons are

* the differences are quite large,
* the development happens now at the Starlink fork
* ESO stopped their development and maintenance years ago

ESO is now just the historic origin (and the web page for skycat, which
starlink hasn't); however they have no manpower for this anymore and
their version is almost dead. ESO itself recommends the use of the
Starlink fork if asked by mail.

The situation was discussed between the Starlink developer, the Fedora
package maintainer and me and we decided to take the Starlink repository
as the primary one. This leads to this situation, which is shortly
explained in README.starlink and README.debian.

Best regards

Ole