[Debichem-devel] Jmol: Seeking new maintainer or considering removal

[Daniel Leidert]

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Am Freitag, den 07.03.2014, 19:10 +0100 schrieb Daniel Leidert:

> Hi,
>  
> 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 it seems unuseful to me, to ship an outdated piece of software.
>  
> HP: http://www.jmol.org
> PTS: http://packages.qa.debian.org/j/jmol.html
> Bugs: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=jmol
> RFH: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=719330
> 
> Thanks and regards, Daniel