Re: [Repost] RFS: cpl-plugin-* [ITP] -- ESO data reduction pipeline recipes

[Julian Taylor <jtaylor.debian@googlemail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Olе Streicher <debian-devel@liska.ath.cx> wrote:

Dear mentors,

Since I didn't get response since three weeks, I am reposting my
Requests For Sponsorship so that it does not get lost:

I have prepared five packages that have a similar structure and are to
be used as plugins for the "cpl" library and the "esorex" and
"python-cpl" packages. Each plugin contains the software to process
("reduce" in the astronomer's slang) the data of one instrument mounted
at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Telescope
(ESO) in Paranal:

* cpl-plugin-hawki/1.8.12-1
* cpl-plugin-sinfo/2.3.3-1
* cpl-plugin-fors/4.9.23-1
* cpl-plugin-giraf/2.11.1-1
* cpl-plugin-amber/4.2.2-1

hi,
you put in the current maintainers of the pipelines as upstream authors. Can you please check with them if this is correct.
So far I know the support for this software is supposed to go over usd-help@eso.org
Also its Upstream-Contact not Upstream-Author in the machine readable copyright format.

Concerning the calibration data, you may be able to save significant amount of space by compressing them with cfitsio fpack utility. Its usually better than generic compression methods, at the cost that it can only be read by cfitsio compatible programs (which is the case for these pipelines).

Regards,
Julian Taylor

PS: I still think these packages are to specific in purpose for Debian, so this is no offer of sponsorship.