Hi Petter, On 07.03.2016 11:11, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Btw, one very cool program in the task is Celestia, which unfortunatly > is no longer included in Debian unstable and testing, see > <URL: https://packages.qa.debian.org/c/celestia.html >. The reason is > that the program depend on libraries no longer shipped by Debian. Do > you know if anyone is working on getting Celestia into shape for Debian? > It is very sad if we no longer will have the universe simulator included > in the future. :)
I don't know of anybody. The main problem here is that Celestia itself seems to be abandoned -- the last version is from 2011. Without upstream support, it will probably be quite hard to support this (non-trivial) program in the future. >> To compare the two alternatives, have a look at >> >> http://blends.debian.org/edu/tasks/astronomy (original) >> http://blends.debian.org/astro/tasks/education (alternative) > > Btw, what about making one of the packages depend on the other, and only > maintain the list in one spot? Sure, that was my idea to join debian-edu. this however needs some support from the blends package. >> Please let me know any comments or hints for improvements on the new >> pages. And shall I keep the original pages as they are or do you want >> to change to the alternative pages (which is currently used for >> debian-astro and hamradio)? > > Personally I like the original pages better than the new ones, but I do > not really have strong opinion on this. Do you have some specific critics? I'd like to improve here... Cheers Ole P.S. please keep me in the Cc:
