Bug#737270: ITP: chealpix -- C language interface for Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization

[Leo Singer <lsinger@maasim.ligo.caltech.edu>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Leo Singer <leo.singer@ligo.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : chealpix
 Version         : 3.11.2
 Upstream Author : Martin Reinecke <martin@mpa-garching.mpg.de>
* URL             : http://healpix.sourceforge.net
* License         : GPL-2+
 Programming Lang: C
 Description     : C language interface for Hierarchical Equal Area
isoLatitude Pixelization

This is the C language implementation of HEALPix (Hierarchical Equal Area
isoLatitude Pixelization). It is a map projection and indexing scheme for
representing data on the unit sphere, commonly used to store all-sky
astronomical images or databases, including cosmic microwave background maps
and all-sky survey images.

This is the first of three ITPs for the C, C++, and Python interfaces
(chealpix, healpix-cxx, and healpy). I have contributed build-related code
upstream for all three packages and I maintain their respective Mac OS packages
in MacPorts.