[Debichem-devel] Problems regarding the jmol package sitting in NEW

[Vincent Fourmond]

  Hello,

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Michael Banck <mbanck at debian.org> wrote:
>>   These are sourceless binary-ony libraries. If they are still in the
>> tarball, your package will be rejected.
>
> Those jars got stripped off the orig tarball prior to source package
> bundling.

  Great ! It would be good to add a .dfsg somewhere, then, that might
avoid direct attacks such as this one later on ;-)...

>>   What is worse is the discussion about the netscape.jar dependency,
>> see my original ITP
>
> Well, the jar gets removed, and the relevent classes are
> implemented/imported.  Not sure, maybe it is provided by standard
> OpenJDK runtime.

  Curious. It surprises me, I'll have to take a closer look.

> Currently, the applet doesn't work, and it was suspected that the
> netscape classes might be the issue.  However, I added a
>
> import netscape.javascript.JSObject;
>
> to the main JMol.java file, rebuilt and ran the application without
> import errors.
>
> If anybody has some insight on how to get the applet working, that'd be
> great.  I uplodaded the debs from the NEW queue to
>
> deb http://people.debian.org/~mbanck/debichem-jmol/ ./

  OK, I'll have a look into that (but not necessarily so soon as I wished).

  Cheers,

      Vincent