[Debichem-devel] jgromacs package seems useful

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:06:01AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:50:50PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 08:02:16PM +0200, Steffen Möller wrote:
> > > On 05/16/2012 04:21 PM, Nicholas Breen wrote:
> > > > On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 03:52:00PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> > > >> Cool! JGromacs has been on my radar, but I did not have to time to take
> > > >> a close look.
> > > > Likewise.  I expect we *could* get it into the next release, is the current
> > > > state of JGromacs stable enough that we could probably ship with this version?
> > > It was not updated since 2011 from what I understood. My student uses
> > > it. I think we should go ahead, stabilitywise.   I am notoriously bad
> > > with backports, otherwise I would not hesitate at all.
> > 
> > Ok, if you have somebody using it without major issues I'd say it should
> > get included.
> > 
> > One thing about README.source; I think if you do something fancy with
> > the original tarball, it would be best to supply a "get-orig-source"
> > script for the modifications.
> > 
> > I take you based you packaging on "jgromacs_v1_src.tgz"?
> > 
> > I just renamed the "source" directory inside the jgromacs tarball to
> > "jgromacs-1.0" here so far, and it build fine.  
> > 
> > You wrote you removed jama, I think it is fine to keep it even if it is
> > not used in the build.  Unless we have to remove it due to some
> > licensing issues, which I guess is not the case?
> 
> Oh, and I forgot to mention: should I set maintainer to Debichem and you
> (and maybe me if you don't mind) as Uploader?

I went forward and changed those in subversion, but of course feel free
to revert if you prefer otherwise.


Michael