[Debichem-devel] Rasmol needs severe contribution to stay in Debian

[Carnë Draug]

On 3 July 2018 at 14:59, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the bug log of #790196[1] shows that rasmol in its current state will
> not be distributable with Buster.  Upstream is dead so if we want to
> keep it in Debian we have the option:
>
>    1) Port it to Gtk+ 3 (see porting guide [2])
>    2) Find a Gtk+ 2 replacement for libvte
>    3) Give up and remove this package from Debian
>
> Since option 3 would be a shame for a package with quite some users[3]
> (at least in the field of scientific software) I'm hereby making some
> noise about this.  My recent upload updates metadata (Salsa migration),
> fixed all other bugs and most of the lintian issues.
>
> I'd be really happy if someone could spent some time into this
>
>       Andreas.
>
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/790196
> [2] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-migrating-2-to-3.html
> [3] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=rasmol

Maybe option 3 is not that bad.  Debian also packages pymol which is
used even more [4] so it's not like rasmol users will be left without an
alternative.

David

[4] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=pymol