RE: Source forge obsolete FITS package

[JohnD]

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> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 13:38:29 +0100
> From: Emmanuel Brandt <address@hidden>
> To: Octave-Maintainers <address@hidden>,
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> Subject: Source forge obsolete FITS package
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> All,
> 
> First I apologize is this is not the appropriate DL.
> 
> Couple of weeks ago there was an intense mail exchange with Dirk Schmidt
> (V1.0.7 from 2015) on who is maintaining the FITS package. Since then I
> have not seen any movement.
> 
> This package available on sourforge is not compatible with Octave 5.1.0
> (just a D_INT deprecated statement)
> 
> Is anyone planning to act on it?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Dr Emmanuel Brandt
> 

Last I heard, Dirk was planning on doing a release soon

The fits repo already has the fix for depreciated function applied, and in 
windows (mxe-octave), we apply a patch