Bug#216878: Situation of astronomical packages, ITA offer and proposed RFC

2004-04-20 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 09:37:33AM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > > Some other programs use modified versions of the star data catalogues but > > do not provide preprocessors to regenerate the data IIRC. > > Well, if it's not too hard to write such a preprocessor to massage the > data into that

Bug#216878: Situation of astronomical packages, ITA offer and proposed RFC

2004-04-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Hi Javi and others, As no one else has volunteered, I'd be interested in adopting starplot and spacechart. I would very much like to help disentangle the mess of redundant data and licensing problems with the astronomy-related packages in Debian. Full disclosure: I am the upstream author for