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

[Mark Williamson]

On 27/06/16 21:24, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> 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.


Dear Dmitry,

I appreciate your reply and patience. Please accept my apologies for this.

Regards,

Mark

>
> --
> Dmitry Shachnev
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Mark Williamson <mw529 at cam.ac.uk> -----
>
> 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
>