On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 09:55:57PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > This time I've gone trough the list of long orphaned packages. > These are packages unlikely to ever get a new maintainer, at least > they didn't manage to do so in the last two to three years. > > [...] > > fv orphaned 3 years, popcon 189/20/156/13/0, > rdeps: science-astronomy
Hello, I'm involved in astronomy and I planned to make some work on those "monsters" that are fv and saods9. Some time ago I gave a look to the sources: they are both a big mess, but I admit it was a very quick attempt (I was very busy in the last months). I could try to update them as summer homework. :) (perhaps asking some help to those people working on saods9 in ubuntu) Rant: Why the astronomers are not capable of programming? Or... Why re-invent the wheel with some ad-hoc trick instead of using standard things like anyone? I mean: why include all the libraries you need? Why saods9 ships a modified version of tcl/tk? ciao Riccardo ps. please cc me in replies, as I'm subscribed only to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not (yet?) to debian-qa.
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