Notes regarding this package
----------------------------

This package, from version 1.0-12, follows the stardata-common 
policy. Thus it uses register-stardata on installing and uninstalling.
It converts this stardata catalogue to data formats of all compatible
stardata viewer programs available in the system, and removes the
generated files on uninstall.

If an astronomy program is installed that can use the Yale data,
register-stardata stores the generated files in /var/lib/<astronomy_package>
and it makes a symlink to this file from
/usr/share/<astronomy_package>/yale.stars,
removing both when uninstalling this package.

Read more about stardata-common in http://alioth.debian.org/stardata-common

-- Francisco Garcia <franciscomanuel.garcia@hispalinux.es> Mon, 13 Jun 2005 21:31:32 +0200

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It can also be used by other astronomical software which can understand
the 'Standard for Documentation of Astronomical Catalogues' (available at 
several places including http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/doc/catstd.htx).

-- Javier Fernandez-Sanguino 
Wed, 28 May 2003 16:28:31 +0200

