Comment 8 for bug 549696

As a Celestia developer, I can say it is definitely clear that this bug is affecting users as evidenced by several threads in our forums from Ubuntu users asking about why the textures are missing - these are obviously the people who have been bothered to report it, rather than just uninstalling the application as being bug-ridden. Have to say it is quite frustrating to see our hard work being so casually undermined by this frankly rather stupid decision about the packaging: how does serving a broken application help anyone?

In any case we now have Celestia 1.6.1 out, maybe it would be possible to take the opportunity to package it in a more sensible way?