Package: stellarium
Severity: wishlist

you only package the first star packs, and inside the program you can
get more stars
It would be nice if these were packaged as additional packages.
Perhaps
recommends: stellarium-data-more
suggests: stellarium-data-more2, stellarium-date-more3
etc
or whatever naming scheme you use


this might also be able to lower the package size if not as many stars
are installed (but be the same with the recommended package)

Hi,
I like this idea, however:
  * what is the problem with using the builtin feature in stellarium?
    the only I can make is that packaged star packs would be shared among
    all users, saving a lot of space. But, honestly, how often would
multiple
    users on the same machine install additional star packs independently?
  * some of the packs are HUGE (
http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Star_Catalogues)

Let me know what you think.

Tomek

Hi,
I like this idea, however:
  * what is the problem with using the builtin feature in stellarium?
    the only I can make is that packaged star packs would be shared among
    all users, saving a lot of space. But, honestly, how often would
multiple
    users on the same machine install additional star packs independently?
  * some of the packs are HUGE ( http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.ph
/Star_Catalogues)

Let me know what you think.

Tomek

Hi!

Additional stars catalogs for Stellarium have size is over 1 Gb - it's
huge size for deb packages. Maybe good idea will be packed catalog 4
and 5 (summary size approximate 63 Mb). More correct names for this
package will be stellarium-stars instead name stallarium-data-more.

Le 17/06/2012 19:52, Alexander Wolf a écrit :
Hi Alexander,
somehow your e-mail didn't make it to the bug tracker. Anyway,
I think that the stellarium-stars package(s) could download the
star packs from sf.net during installation instead of literally
packaging them:
ttf-mscorefonts-installer package is using this approach for example
(for different reasons, though).
What do you think?

Tomek

Hi Tomasz!

 2012/6/19 Tomasz Buchert <tomasz.buchert@inria.fr>:
 > I think that the stellarium-stars package(s) could download the
 > star packs from sf.net during installation instead of literally
 > packaging them:
 > ttf-mscorefonts-installer package is using this approach for example
 > (for different reasons, though).
 > What do you think?

Yes, it's good solution!

Hi Tomasz,

I also would like to see a package similar to ttf-mscorefonts-installer package
for additional star catalogs for stellarium.

Best regards,
Jörg-Volker.

Hi guys,
I worked a bit today on this bug. The result is the following set
of packages (version 1.4.0):

http://mentors.debian.net/package/stellarium-stars

(if your are not Debian-savvy, grab debs here: http://debian.buchert.pl/stellarium-stars/)

Stellarium will pick the installed catalogues automatically.
I've tested them as much as I could, but I would like you to get your
hands dirty as well. If you are interested, here is the git repository:

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/stellarium-stars.git

Any suggestions, questions, etc. are welcome.
If you find it good enough, I will upload it to Debian and make Stellarium
recommend them in the future. Speaking of - is there a DD in this thread
that could sponsor this new package?

Have fun,
Tomasz