Bug#815830: Please update to the newest version

[Leo P. Singer]

On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 21:32:57 +0100 Ole Streicher <olebole at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: src:libfits-java
> Version: 1.10.0-1
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-Cc: frothmaier at lsw.uni-heidelberg.de, attila at submm.caltech.edu
> 
> Dear Florian,
> 
> your Debian libfits-java package is quite outdated; version 1.14.0 is
> the current upstream version. Since a newer version if needed to package
> the "CRUSH" program [1], would you mind to update the package to the
> latest upstream version?
> 
> Could I also ask you to move the package from debian-science to
> debian-astro as maintainer and in the alioth git structure? This would
> make team maintenance easier, since debian-astro members could help
> maintaining.
> 
> If you don't have time for this, but otherwise agree, please let me
> know. Then I could do it myself, or maybe Attila (from CRUSH) can help
> maintaining.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Ole
> 
> [1] http://www.submm.caltech.edu/~sharc/crush/
> 
> 

Hi Florian,

There is now a version 1.15.1 available upstream. Apparently the new upstream version of healpix-java [1] depends on some recent additions to the libfits-java API. Would you please update to the latest upstream version?

Thanks and best regards,
Leo

[1] https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/healpix-java