The saods9 package in the science (universe) section should probably be removed from the repository, perhaps permanently. Here's my reasoning:
1) The version presently there contains a bug that does not allow it to interact with IRAF, another big program used by astronomers. IRAF is very frequently used in conjunction with ds9. This is confusing when a person is installing IRAF because trying to display an image in ds9 from IRAF causes both to crash with no obvious way of knowing what caused it. 2) The ds9 program is very frequently updated and will be out-of-date almost as soon as it is added to the repository. They are up to version 5.1 now and not 4.0b7. 3) The ds9 program is extremely easy to install and consists of just a single executable file. Any user who would be interested to use it would be good enough with computers to manually install it. At the least, the program should be updated to fix reason #1. Cheers, Jason -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
