Your message dated Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:23:45 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#659003: Acknowledgement (ITP: slalib -- Positional 
Astronomy Library)
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regarding ITP: slalib -- Positional Astronomy Library
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Ole Streicher <deb...@liska.ath.cx>
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* 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



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This package will be superceded by libpal,

<http://bugs.debian.org/659984>

So I will not release the Debian package. However, I already finished
packaging,

<http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=debian-science/packages/slalib.git>

so contact me if you feel that this package is needed anyway.

Cheers

Ole


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