See #198499 for a full description of the problem with kstars; it basically boils down to kstars using non-DFSG-free data.
> Please also notice that Debian currently provides, in the non-free section > due to this same license issues, some star-data catalogues (Gliese and > Yale). It might be useful if you break the package into software and data > and made the data package non-free for the time being. KStars is a part of the much larger source package kdeedu. It is highly desirable for kdeedu to stay in main, and so since kstars depends on non-DFSG data then what I will do is simply get rid of kstars altogether. As for redoing kstars as a separate standalone non-free or contrib package: I don't have time to deal with complex non-DFSG-free licensing issues right now and so I'm not going to do this myself. If anyone else is interested then you're welcome; you can find all the current kstars debian files in KDE CVS (kdeedu/debian) in the branch KDE_3_1_BRANCH. Ben.
