On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:30:32PM -0800, Alvaro Martinez Echevarria wrote: > > > The last version of x11-common in sid (1:7.1.0-7) includes an > > explicit conflict for xephem (with no version), so this extremely > > useful astronomy package becomes uninstallable. A relatively > > quick would be appreciated (recompilation?). > > Regards, > > Sorry, but xephem hasn't been included in Debian since woody. From > http://ftp-master.debian.org/removals.txt:
I couldn't help but notice that the package had not been updated for a very long time, but since the "new version upstream" was never closed, I always assumed it was due to the maintainers's lack of time. > [Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:51:27 -0400] [ftpmaster: James Troup] > Removed the following packages from unstable: > > xephem | 3.5-2 | alpha, arm, s390, sparc > xephem | 3.5.2-1 | source, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, powerpc > Closed bugs: 270695 > > ------------------- Reason ------------------- > RoM; license problems. > > So this bug won't be fixed in Debian. Well, let's think about this a little bit. According to what I read in 270695, there's a problem with one specific catalog, which is derived from the Yale catalog for which it is not clear if redistribution of modifications is allowed. But there's a yale package in the system containing the original data. So, big deal: I volunteer to write a small program that will generate YBS.edb in xephem format from the contents of the original yale catalog, hence getting around the licensing problems. Would that be acceptable? Javi, what do you think? (incidentally, I know Javi from school many years ago :). Thanks, -- Álvaro Martínez Echevarría ame AT acm.org ``Pero yo que he sentido una vez en mis manos temblar la alegría / ya no podré morir nunca. / Pero yo que he tocado una vez las agudas agujas del pino / ya no podré morir nunca''. [José Hierro, "El muerto"]
