On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 06:19:29AM +0200, Frank S. Thomas wrote: > Justin, sorry for the late reply, I was quite busy lately. > > On Sunday 12 March 2006 19:15, Justin Pryzby wrote: > > I was wondering if it might be interesting to have a separate package to > > download these catalogs, since they can also be useful to other > > packages. I'm thinking about /usr/share/astro/, to also include stuff > > like the star catalogs which seem to also be in Debian, or perhaps > > /var/cache/ for stuff which might be updated, like asteroid > > parameters, possibly by some /usr/sbin/update-astro-catalogs foo, > > maybe even an /etc/update-astro.conf to select the catalogs of > > interest... > > This is a nice idea, however I see two problems with it. First you have to > patch all applications to look for catalogs in /u/s/astro or /v/c/astro. And > secondly you have to teach your users to use update-astro-catalogs. Frankly, > my motivation to work on this wanes by looking at the popcon votes for ORSA. > Nevertheless, if update-astro-catalogs would exist I would adapt ORSA to it. > > Do you now the stardata-common package? Your proposal should be discussed on > the stardata-common-devel mailing list. > https://alioth.debian.org/projects/stardata-common/ Aha. Yes I think I came across it. And I agree, that the motivation factor probably doesn't exist yes, I don't use enough astronomy applications from Debian to work on it either. (But, package postinsts could automatically update the catalogs..)
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