[Debichem-devel] Fwd: Roll out of a newer upstream release (1.2.0) for Avogadro ?

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi Mark,

I know really nothing about Avogadro, my name was in the changelog only
because I uploaded a non-change rebuild for a sip transition.

I am forwarding your message to the Debian maintainers of this package.

If it's updated in Debian it will get eventually synced/merged into Ubuntu.

In future, please file bugs for such issues rather than sending mails.

--
Dmitry Shachnev

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Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 18:13:55 +0100
From: Mark Williamson <mw529 at cam.ac.uk>
To: mitya57 at ubuntu.com
Subject: Roll out of a newer upstream release (1.2.0) for Avogadro ?
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Dear Dmitry,

Please forgive me for this email out of the blue, but I found your name in the
committers changelog for the Ubuntu avogadro deb package. Also, please accept
my apologies if I am not going about this request in the correct manner.


We make quite a bit of use of avogadro in our research here at Cambridge, but,
it does have a habit of crashing... quite a bit. Whilst Marcus Hanwell is
focusing on the v2.x branch at the moment, it would appear that there has been
some maintenance on the 1.x branch recently and there is a newer upstream
release for Avogadro (1.2.0) that purports to fix "countless bugs":

 https://sourceforge.net/projects/avogadro/files/avogadro/1.2.0/

It seems that this was released last year:
 https://twitter.com/AvogadroChem

However, it only just has been uploaded to sourceforge.

We make use of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS in the Chemistry department here at Cambridge
and I have managed to build a 1.2.0 .deb locally using the
avogadro_1.1.1-0ubuntu2.debian.tar.gz framework, with only a minor refresh of
the quilt patches. I am considering pushing this out locally at Cambridge to
our local repositories in the department.

We would really welcome this as an official Ubuntu update to the v1.x series,
and, given that it has been quite easy to build an updated version here, I was
wondering it this could be rolled for 14.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS?

Increasing the stability of this tool would be a valuable aspect to our
research.

Best regards,

Mark

-- 
Dr. Mark J. Williamson
Research Manager
Hunter Group
Room B68
Department of Chemistry
Lensfield Road
Cambridge CB2 1EW
+44 1223 763844

http://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/person/mw529

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