Package: wnpp X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] Owner: Emmanuel Farhi <[email protected]> Severity: wishlist
* Package name : celestia Version : 1.7.0 Upstream Contact: Celestia Development Team <[email protected]> * URL : https://github.com/CelestiaProject/Celestia * License : GPL Programming Lang: C++ Description : real-time visual space simulation Celestia is a free 3D astronomy program. Based on the Hipparcos Catalogue, it allows users to display objects ranging in scale from artificial satellites to entire galaxies in three dimensions using OpenGL. Unlike most planetarium software, the user is free to travel about the Universe. Other information: celestia was long ago in debian (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/celestia) but was pushed-out in 2016. It was also re-considered for packaging, via bug report #988111, but did not went through. The upstream now seems to revive. It is a good opportunity to put celestia back in debian. The CelestiaContent also need to be packages as celestia-data (https://github.com/CelestiaProject/CelestiaContent). Both upstream git are suited for packaging, and can already be used produce binary debian packages. Celestia is not to be confused with openuniverse (in debian), which lacks a GUI and is much less powerful. I plan to do my best to maintain this package, with help from @olebole in the Debian Astro team.
