[AstroPy] Ubuntu packages and state of AstroLib

[Ole Streicher]

Dear list,

are there Ubuntu packages available for AstroLib? And/or are the packages
for Debian or are there any efforts to create such?

Since I need pywcs for Ubuntu, I would volunteer to create such a
package, but I'd like to avoid doubling effort.

In case I would need to create them myself: it seems a bit unclear on
how to get started. The astrolib homepage <http://www.astrolib.org> does
not show any releases; however there seem to be some openSUSE package
built from a (released??) version
http://stsdas.stsci.edu/astrolib/pywcs-1.9-4.4.4.tar.gz

What is the current state of this software?

Cheers

Ole