Bug#819894: ITP Lin-guider

Hi Eduard,

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> wrote:

Hallo,
* Rumen Bogdanovski [Sun, Apr 03 2016, 07:22:04PM]:
> Package: wnpp
> Owner: Rumen G. Bogdanovski <rumen@skyarchive.org>
> Severity: wishlist
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-astro@lists.debian.org,
> debian-python@lists.debian.org
>
>
> * Package name : lin-guider
> Version : 3.2.2
> Upstream Author : GM software <galaxy_master@mail.ru>
> * URL : https://sourceforge.net/projects/linguider/
> * License : GPL3
> Programming Lang: C++/Perl
> Description : Lin-guider is an astronomical auto guiding software for
> Linux.

Linux-only? Debian isn't just Linux.

Yes unfortunately Lin-guider is Linux only for various reasons. I have an idea to port it to MacOSX, but I just have no time to complete it,
however I do not think mas port would be of Debian's interest. Never tested it on FreeBSD, and most probably it would need some porting in order to work mainly because of video for linux which is used in some parts. Is that a problem that is Linux only?

> Lin-guider is an astronomical auto guiding program for Linux. It supports

Please, please, start that sentense with some key words (supports
astrocams of the following types...) and format the list to some more
readable form. Otherwise the reader has to get through all this mess to
finally see the point.

How do i format it? Plain text, HTML, markdown etc?

> Philips, Logitech, uvc webcams, QHY5, QHY6, DSI2PRO, QHY5L-II-M,
> QHY5L-II-C, QHY5-II, ATIK, Starlight Xpress, ZWO ASI astrocams for video
> and FTDI chip-based, parallel port-based (LPT), GPIO-based, GPUSB
> devices, Nexstar-protocol based and QHY5, QHY6, QHY5L-II-M, QHY5L-II-C,
> QHY5-II, ATIK, Starlight Xpress, ZWO ASI astrocams for pulse guiding.

Best regards,
Eduard.