[Debichem-devel] Bug#826069: Bug#826069: Adding avogadro to med-bio or replacing ghemical by avogadro in med-bio task

[Michael Banck]

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 12:44:26AM +1100, Stuart Prescott wrote:
> > There's the problem of one/some of the authors deciding to rewrite
> > everything as avogadro-2.x and then apparently running out of steam so
> > the way forward is a bit unclear; avogadro-2.x should probably be a
> > different source package for now.
> 
> There's also the Qt4 problem (#874834) where the impending removal of Qt4 will 
> kill avogadro-1 and if avogadro-2 isn't yet ready to take over, there will be 
> no avogadro at all in buster.

Well yeah, buster will suck with respect to 3rd party Qt applications.

I can try to open an issue about porting Avogadro1 to Qt5 upstream, but
I'm not very hopeful.


Michael