Bug#719720: RFS: skycat/3.1.2+starlink1~b-1 [ITP]
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Anton
2013/8/14 Ole Streicher <debian@liska.ath.cx>:
> Hi Anton,
>
> Am 14.08.2013 20:16, schrieb Anton Gladky:
>> why is the tarball on mentors different from that one, which is on the
>> website?
>
> I did not use the tarball provided by ESO but the one provided by
> Starlink
> <https://github.com/Starlink/skycat/archive/v3.1.2-starlink-1b.tar.gz>.
> Reasons are
>
> * the differences are quite large,
> * the development happens now at the Starlink fork
> * ESO stopped their development and maintenance years ago
>
> ESO is now just the historic origin (and the web page for skycat, which
> starlink hasn't); however they have no manpower for this anymore and
> their version is almost dead. ESO itself recommends the use of the
> Starlink fork if asked by mail.
>
> The situation was discussed between the Starlink developer, the Fedora
> package maintainer and me and we decided to take the Starlink repository
> as the primary one. This leads to this situation, which is shortly
> explained in README.starlink and README.debian.
>
> Best regards
>
> Ole
>
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