Re: octave forge fits package

[Carnë Draug]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 at 19:37, JohnD <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Carnë Draug [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2019 2:17 PM
> > To: JohnD
> > Cc: octave-maintainers; Dirk Schmidt
> > Subject: Re: octave forge fits package
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> > On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 21:15, JohnD <address@hidden> wrote:
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> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: JohnD [mailto:address@hidden
> > > > Sent: Friday, January 04, 2019 10:19 AM
> > > > To: address@hidden
> > > > Cc: address@hidden
> > > > Subject: octave forge fits package
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> > > > Is anyone actively maintaining this package (or intending to) ?
> > > >
> > > > Looks like the forge repo hasn't been updated since 2015, and there a 
> > > > few
> > > > bugs with it so it will now not install in 5.0.1.
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> > > > I'll willing to update and make a new release if all are ok with that
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> > > > JD
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> > >
> > > No response ...
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> > The FITS package is listed as an external package.  I think with the
> > current organisation of Octave Forge, only the listed package
> > maintainer should be making or approving changes and that person is
> > Dirk Schmidt address@hidden
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> Is it an external package because the maintainer wanted that, or because he 
> didn’t respond last year when the email went out ?

I have no clue.