Bug#599332: kstars: devices menu missing - no telescope control possible (libindi missing?)

[tobias <tobias.kramer@mytum.de>]

Package: kstars
Version: 4:4.4.5-2
Severity: normal

Dear kde maintainers,

kstars has a telescope control feature, which was enabled in debian lenny and
works nicely using a library named libindi. Telescope control is a widely
advertised feature of kstars and it would be great to enable it again in
debian.

Recently some downstream distributions seem to have disabled (by a simple
mistake?) the telescope support, the "Devices" menu is not visible. Ubuntu
allegedly fixed this in 10.10, see

http://lists.kde.org/?l=kstars-devel&m=128637597902107&w=2

Ubuntu seems to have introduced a new package libindi. Maybe a similar package
can be introduced in debian?

Thanks for your work in maintaining KDE,
best Tobias



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages kstars depends on:
ii  kdebase-runtime             4:4.4.5-1    runtime components from the offici
ii  kstars-data                 4:4.4.5-2    data files for KStars desktop plan
ii  libc6                       2.11.2-6     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcfitsio3                 3.240-1      shared library for I/O with FITS f
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.4.4-8    GCC support library
ii  libkde3support4             4:4.4.5-1    the KDE 3 Support Library for the 
ii  libkdecore5                 4:4.4.5-1    the KDE Platform Core Library
ii  libkdeui5                   4:4.4.5-1    the KDE Platform User Interface Li
ii  libkio5                     4:4.4.5-1    the Network-enabled File Managemen
ii  libknewstuff2-4             4:4.4.5-1    the "Get Hot New Stuff" v2 Library
ii  libqt4-dbus                 4:4.6.3-1+b1 Qt 4 D-Bus module
ii  libqt4-qt3support           4:4.6.3-1+b1 Qt 3 compatibility library for Qt 
ii  libqtcore4                  4:4.6.3-1+b1 Qt 4 core module
ii  libqtgui4                   4:4.6.3-1+b1 Qt 4 GUI module
ii  libstdc++6                  4.4.4-8      The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

kstars recommends no packages.

Versions of packages kstars suggests:
pn  indi                          <none>     (no description available)
ii  khelpcenter4                  4:4.4.5-1  help center
ii  konqueror                     4:4.4.5-1  advanced file manager, web browser

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