Hi, On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 07:10:44PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Jmol is a nice and useful 3D chemical structures viewer application, > which is written in Java. It can be run as a standalone application > and it also ships an interactive web browser applet and a Java > development tollkit. > > Since some time the Jmol package is lacking behind the latest upstream > releases. Current version in Debian is 12.X whereas upstream already > reached 14.X. With the release of the 13.X series, Jmol added some > more external libraries, which it uses and ships. So to get the latest > Jmol release into Debian/main a maintainer is required, who is willing > to maintain Jmol along with its dependencies. This requires some basic > Java knowledge. Also note, that the upstream build system (the last > time I checked) usually puts all classes - Jmol and its dependencies - > into one JAR file, so you usually have to hack the build system too. > > If nobody steps up, I'm going to request its removal from Debian, as > it seems unuseful to me, to ship an outdated piece of software.
If somebody wants to step up to help, be my guest. Note that I believe there is/will be a Javascript version of Jmol at one point, which might make some thing easier, not sure. In any case, I plan to update it in time for the jessie freeze at least, but I currently don't have a lot of time to dedicate to it. Michael __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use debian-j...@lists.debian.org for discussions and questions.