[Stardata-common-devel] Preliminary Hipparcos data packages

[Francisco García]

Hi again, Kevin.
I am downloading these packages to try whit them.
Good job!.

Best Regards,
Francisco.

El jue, 08-09-2005 a las 09:09 -0400, Kevin B. McCarty escribió:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I prepared preliminary Debian packages of the Hipparcos data.  You can
> find them here:  http://starplot.org/hipparcos/ (sorry, not currently
> apt-gettable)
> 
> Please let me know what you think.  I wrote them to be compliant with
> the stardata policy.  I also attach a quick draft of a StarPlot .spec
> file for the Hipparcos data.  (The data file uses a funny format for
> Durchmusterung [BD, CP, CD] designations which starconvert doesn't
> currently recognize, by the way.  I'll have to release a new point
> version of StarPlot to fix this.)
> 
> There are five binary packages.  One (hipparcos-base) is documentation
> common to everything else.  Three (stardata-hipparcos-{60pc,120pc,all})
> provide different subsets of the main Hipparcos catalog.  Since each of
> them has a symlink /usr/share/stardata/hipparcos/catalog.dat ->
> hip_main<suffix>.dat, these three packages Conflict/Replace with each
> other and all provide a stardata-hipparcos virtual package.  The final
> package, stardata-hipparcos-addenda, contains the other
> Hipparcos-related catalogs (multiple stars, variable stars, etc.).
> 
> Note: please don't upload any of these packages to the Debian archive
> yet, I want to double check on the copyright with "upstream" (the
> Hipparcos project) first.  I imagine they may need more work anyway.
> 
> Although it doesn't directly affect these packages, there is a slightly
> annoying issue in that the Spacechart converter from the Hipparcos
> catalogue to Spacechart format also requires another star catalog, the
> CCDM.  I'll have to look and see if there is a way around that using
> Hipparcos data only.
> 
> regards,

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