Re: Wish to package astronomy software
Hi Bamm,
Happy New Year and welcome to the Debian project!
It's great to hear that you are interested in packaging astronomy
software. I'm an astrophysicist working at the University of Heidelberg,
Germany, and I'm also packaging astronomical software.
Since I try to manage several projects at the same time, my packaging
work is going quite slowly. I'm maintaining a local APT repository
which includes, for instance, a package of the "Aladin Sky Atlas"
http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/ .
I'm not yet an experienced packager but if you have specific issues or
questions, feel free to contact me. My current project is to package
the Java libraries of the "starlink" people
https://github.com/Starlink/starjava/
and thereafter the applications TOPCAT and SPLAT that also belong to
the "starlink" project.
If you are interested in taking over some tasks of this packaging work,
it would be a great pleasure for me.
Best regards,
Florian
Am 05.01.2014 12:42, schrieb Bamm:
> Hello,
>
> I'm Bamm from the Philippines. I'm new to this list and I hope to gain
> advice how to package for Debian. My interest is in astronomy
> software.
>
> I received advice to start with simple packages, and I chose xvarstar
> to start with. It doesn't seem to have a Debian package yet, but it
> has an RPM package for Fedora.
>
> I am reading the Debian New Maintainers' Guide and have been able to
> do the packaging privately.
>
> Can I get advice how I can apply to be a packager for this package? I
> would also like some feedback on the source package I made.
>
> Regards,
> Bamm
>
>
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