Hi, On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 03:59:01PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > the bug log of #790196[1] shows that rasmol in its current state will > not be distributable with Buster. Upstream is dead so if we want to > keep it in Debian we have the option: > > 1) Port it to Gtk+ 3 (see porting guide [2]) > 2) Find a Gtk+ 2 replacement for libvte > 3) Give up and remove this package from Debian
Maybe another option would be 4) See whether it is possible to rip out GTK from rasmol entirely I don't think it was always a GTK application, but a native XWindows app previously. If that is feasible at all, it might remove some features that users rely on, but there is a chance this would be easier than 1) or 2). Michael