conda recipe

[glenn....@gmail.com]

Hi,

I think it would be convenient to have astrometry.net installable through conda, so I was about to start a conda-forge recipe to do so. The main motivation is to use it in travis-ci test suites, but I don't want to have to rebuild astrometry.net every time. The version included in the Trusty package is rather old. It looks like LSST packaged a version on anaconda.org a long time ago but it doesn't seem to be maintained.

I appreciate any thoughts or advice.

Thanks,

Glenn

[Ole Streicher]

As the Debian maintainer (where the current Ubuntu package originates),
my recommendation is biased ofcourse:

You can create a personal package archive on launchpad.net, and upload
the current Ubuntu (or Debian) source package with an adapted
"distribution" field in debian/changelog ("unstable" --> "trusty"). It
will then build (hopefully) without major problems. Then you can include
the personal ppa into the travis-ci config.

Selfish addition: if you are very happy with that and want to have
others happy as well, you could then request a backport of the package:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports

Best regards

Ole