Re: Wish to package astronomy software
Hi Florian,
On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 11:34:24AM +0100, Florian Rothmaier wrote:
> 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.
Good.
> 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/ .
Not so good. Why not considering the official Debian repository to let
the world profit from your work and get bug reports to enhance your own
work?
> 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.
It would be a great pleasure for the Debian Science team if you would
join as well to assemble all people working on astronomy packages on one
single place. :-)
Kind regards
Andreas.
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