Re: Bug#1118016: education-astronomy: suggests xtide and xtide-data which are not in unstable

Frans Spiesschaert <[email protected]> Thu, 20 Nov 2025 23:15:01 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.education
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Hi Mike,

Mike Gabriel schreef op do 13-11-2025 om 08:20 [+0000]:
> Hi Carles, hi Frans,
> 
>  In fact, I am  
> currently involved in a packaging project where we might bring more  
> Edu software (back) into Debian. If xtide has returned, we simply
> need  
> to update debian-edu src:pkg and xtide jumps back into the
> Recommends:  
> field.
> 
> What do you think?

xtide has gradually lost relevance due to a lack of relevant data,
because data that were distributed with considerable freedom at one
time, got un-published (see
https://flaterco.com/xtide/faq.html#renaissance and the legacy data
paragraph just above it).

A good replacement would be eo-tides (see
https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.07786.pdf). It is free
(Apache License 2.0) and actively maintained
(https://github.com/GeoscienceAustralia/eo-tides/tree/main) but not in
Debian (yet).

> 
-- 
Kind regards,
Frans Spiesschaert

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