Bug#790196: Rasmol needs severe contribution to stay in Debian
On Tue, 2018-07-03 at 15:25 +0100, Carnë Draug wrote: > On 3 July 2018 at 14:59, Andreas Tille wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 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 option 3 is not that bad. Debian also packages pymol which is > used even more [4] so it's not like rasmol users will be left without > an > alternative. I'd be joyful if someone kept rasmol alive. But viewmol is also an alternative which I've continued to find useful. Drew
Bug#790196: Rasmol needs severe contribution to stay in Debian
On 3 July 2018 at 14:59, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > 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 > > Since option 3 would be a shame for a package with quite some users[3] > (at least in the field of scientific software) I'm hereby making some > noise about this. My recent upload updates metadata (Salsa migration), > fixed all other bugs and most of the lintian issues. > > I'd be really happy if someone could spent some time into this > > Andreas. > > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/790196 > [2] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-migrating-2-to-3.html > [3] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=rasmol Maybe option 3 is not that bad. Debian also packages pymol which is used even more [4] so it's not like rasmol users will be left without an alternative. David [4] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=pymol
Bug#790196: Rasmol needs severe contribution to stay in Debian
Hi, 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 Since option 3 would be a shame for a package with quite some users[3] (at least in the field of scientific software) I'm hereby making some noise about this. My recent upload updates metadata (Salsa migration), fixed all other bugs and most of the lintian issues. I'd be really happy if someone could spent some time into this Andreas. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/790196 [2] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-migrating-2-to-3.html [3] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=rasmol -- http://fam-tille.de
