Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Ole Streicher <deb...@liska.ath.cx> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, debian-scie...@lists.debian.org
* Package name : slalib Version : 2.5.4 Upstream Author : Pat Wallace : * URL : http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/starlink * License : GPLv2+ Programming Lang: F77 Description : Positional Astronomy Library SLALIB1is a library of routines intended to make accurate and reliable positional-astronomy applications easier to write. Most SLALIB routines are concerned with astronomical position and time, but a number have wider trigonometrical, numerical or general applications. This package is built in preparation to build saods9 <http://bugs.debian.org/655648> and starlink-libast <http://bugs.debian.org/657957>. Its main goal is to replace the obfuscated C-code that is used within these libraries by a well-documented and open sourced Fortran code. I plan to do the C interface similarly to the old inclusion of slalib in saods9 by Justin Pryzby. However, there is no official slalib tar ball, only an (untagged) git repository, To make it more confusing, starlink doesn't use version numbers, but code names for their releases -- the current one is "namaka", and the next will be "kaulia". However, internally (files sla.news, components.xml) they use version numbers which I will use. I will not be able to provide a working watch file :-( Some links: - Programmer's manual http://star-www.rl.ac.uk/docs/sun67.htx/sun67.html - GIT repository http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/git/?p=starlink.git;a=tree;f=libraries/sla;h=1e88f89e36f83c9370a1b088ab4e7e995519ea56;hb=HEAD - Starlink home page http://starlink.jach.hawaii.edu/starlink - Home page of the original author of slalib (Pat Wallace): http://www.tpsoft.demon.co.uk/ I appreciate any comments on the goal or packaging hints. Best Ole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f3106ed.7030...@liska.ath.cx
