Bug#216874: spacechart and starplot
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 11:58:25PM +0100, Volgyesi Dora Anna wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I would like adopt spacechart and starplot, as my first Debian packages.
> I'm interested in astronomy, so I am also willing to develop it further.
> Lenart Janos <ocsi@debian.org> would be my sponsor.
That's great. Notice one thing, though, you would have to take over
yale/gliese too since spacechart depends on those. Not that they are
difficult packages (will probably not change upstream for very long),
however.
Now, one of the things I would like to see in both
starplot/spacechart/celestia/openuniverse, etc.. is a way to share the
startdata. The fact that gliese and yale are separated is a first step to
make this possible, a similar thing would need to be done with the
Hipparcos catalogue (shared by many astronomical package). I would like you
to read (and understand) the following bug reports: 174456 and 198499, as
well as the thread in debian-devel started in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200305/msg02004.html
Since starplot, gliese, yale and spacechart are bug-free and no new release
is in the horizon, so the work should be dedicated in coordinating with
other maintainers in order to avoid having the same start data catalogues
many times (but work would need to be done in order to have starplot
generate maps for those as it currently does for gliese/yale).
Summarising: please take a look at those issues and, if you feel you can
address them, go ahead and take over both packages.
Thanks
Javi
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