Hi all, for astronomy (and probably for other parts of science) we need to access data files that are updated from time to time. An example is the difference between UTC and earth rotation. This data is updated every week and is needed to precisely calculate the positions of stars on the sky [1].
What is the best way to keep these data up to date in Debian? An automated process as written in the pull request [1] is probably not the right way, since it is a potential privacy violation. One could let the user manually start the download. However, then he has to keep track of all these little updates himself (or be educated enough to write cronjobs, or re-enable the automatic download, which is more that one could expect from an average scientist). Should one use debconf to ask the user if he wants automatic updates here? Best regards Ole [1] https://github.com/astroplanners/astroplan/pull/67