debian and astronomy (was: Re: first steps (pcfitsio, pyraf and iraf))

2005-10-10 Thread justinpryzby
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:04:57AM -0400, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Cedric BRINER wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm working as a sysadmin at the Geneva Observatory and we do need > > some softwares which are not provided by the debian distribution. So > > I thought that it will be a good idea to do th

Re: HDF/HDF5

2005-10-10 Thread Michael A. Miller
> "Kenneth" == Kenneth Jacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: jdr> I also agree that the ascii is more 'portable', but jdr> another possible advantage of binary is a more compact jdr> file size. > Another advantage to me of using a binary file format is > saving the time neede

Re: iraf

2005-10-10 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
google://iraf+site:lists.debian.org yields these links, which may help. I would like to see some forward movement on this package too. http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/12/msg00192.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/05/msg00338.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/200

iraf

2005-10-10 Thread Cedric BRINER
Hi, I'm wishing to package some astronomical software for debian (iraf, pyraf, pcfitsio). I've contacted the debian-mentor mailing list for this and he replies to me that iraf was part of woody and that it was removed from it because of some policies concerning the FS (some of the file installe