On 11/10/2010 01:06 PM, Noel David Torres Taño wrote: > On Sábado 18 Septiembre 2010 22:38:23 Noel David Torres Taño escribió: > >> Dear mentors, >> >> I am looking for a sponsor for my package "kstars-data-extra-tycho2". >> >> * Package name : kstars-data-extra-tycho2 >> Version : 1.1r1-1 >> Upstream Author : Akarsh Simha, Jason Harris <kstars-de...@kde.org> >> * URL : >> http://edu.kde.org/kstars/downloads/tycho2_mag_12.5-1.1.tar.bz2 >> * License : GPL >> Section : science >> >> It builds these binary packages: >> kstars-data-extra-tycho2 - Contains the Tycho2 star catalog for centralized >> (avoiding per-user) install >> >> The package appears to be lintian clean. Totally clean in source and 4 >> overrides in binary (two -I and two --pedantic) >> >> The upload would fix these bugs: 597202 and is a step in fixing 596007 >> >> My motivation for maintaining this package is: I collaborate in maintaining >> Astronomy classrooms in which several students per computer need to >> download each one the same files. I think that a centralized install is >> better if possible. >> I discussed this in KDE forum in >> http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=90166 and want to create Debian >> packages for the other 8 downloadable kstars' extras. >> we have a similar problem for bioinformatics, and so the bioinformatics community has come up with the getData (wiki.debian.org/getData) tool to help with the maintenance of public data resources. It would be lovely if you could give that a review with the hindsight of your particular demands. Tycho2 is already part of that, btw, it was my first test case :) Our strategy was to have applications add instructions to /etc/getdata.d on how to retrieve and pre/post-process the data that they work on.
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