Bug#170824: Progress adopting celestia?

[Mika Fischer <mf@debian.org>]

Hi, Marcelo!

* Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org> [2003-08-14 11:54]:
>  any luck adopting celestia?

I have working packages already:
http://people.debian.org/~mf/celestia/

One thing that is still unsolved is if it is OK that the new celestia
pulls in KDE and QT libs. The old one was GTK2 as you know.
Personaly I'm inclined to do it because the KDE version has vastly more
features and the other versions are no longer actively maintained
upstream.

Another thing is the GTK2 patches that were in your version. Did you do
them yourself? Did you forward them upstream?
Because upstream still uses GTK1 & Gnome 1.4 and according to the
developers has also no inclination to change that save anybody starts
working again on the GTK-Version (which seems unlikely).
I have no experience with GTK or Gnome so I wouldn't want to maintainn
such a patch myself and am thinking about just forwarding the patch it
upstream and then going with the normal upstream version letting them
decide whether to use it or not.

If you have any suggestions on one of there points they are much
appreciated.

Other than that expect an upload within the month.

Cheers,
 Mika