Comment 9 for bug 53491

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 11:53:19PM +0300, Mantas Kriaučiūnas wrote:

> I've noticed, that wonderfull space simulation software - Celestia is
> very old in Ubuntu and Debian (look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/53491 )
> I've noticed, that some people from Debian and Ubuntu are working on new
> package, but at this moment there are no stable packages of celestia
> 1.4.x, look at http://bugs.debian.org/374534 for more info.
>
> Luckily I found Christophe Teyssier's packages at http://epicycle.free.fr/ubuntu/
> As these packages still have several bugs I fixed them and uploaded
> fixed .diff.gz and packages for Ubuntu 6.10 to
> ftp://ftp.akl.lt/Linux/Baltix/Baltix-Ubuntu-packages/edgy/celestia
>
> Christophe, and Debian/Ubuntu developers, please add my improvements to
> your builds, here is list of my improvements:
[...]

Thanks, I already implemented some of those improvements myself, but
will add the rest as well. I did try to upload celestia to Debian
unstable a while ago, but was blocked by the ftpmasters because of
possible copyright issues. I think I clarified the debian/copyright file
a lot, and will upload it again soon, if it is blocked again then it may
have to go into non-free. If anyone is interested in the discussion I
had with the ftpmaster, I can forward you the emails.

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