Re: Plan for managing the SWISS EPHEMERIS data, virtual packages.

2011-08-05 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Paul, On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 04:28:37PM -0500, Paul Elliott wrote: > On Friday, August 05, 2011 10:35:11 AM you wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > > > > What you want is not a virtual package but rather a meta-package. See > > xserver-xorg for example (or texlive or libreoffice) which pull in > > submo

Re: Plan for managing the SWISS EPHEMERIS data, virtual packages.

2011-08-05 Thread Paul Elliott
On Friday, August 05, 2011 10:35:11 AM you wrote: > Hi Paul, > > What you want is not a virtual package but rather a meta-package. See > xserver-xorg for example (or texlive or libreoffice) which pull in > submodules from a central package that holds only central information or > even only puts t

Re: Plan for managing the SWISS EPHEMERIS data, virtual packages.

2011-08-05 Thread Kilian Krause
Hi Paul, On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 07:36:27PM -0500, Paul Elliott wrote: > I am planing to package the SWISS EPHEMERIS library and its data. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=635672 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636089 > > The SWISS EPHEMERIS data is 36 Meg in

Plan for managing the SWISS EPHEMERIS data, virtual packages.

2011-07-30 Thread Paul Elliott
Dear Debian Mentors, I am planing to package the SWISS EPHEMERIS library and its data. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=635672 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636089 The SWISS EPHEMERIS data is 36 Meg in 54 files. The Swiss Ephemeris library can be used with out