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

[Drew Parsons]

On Tue, 2018-07-03 at 15:25 +0100, Carnë Draug wrote:
> 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
> > 
> > 
...
> 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.

I'd be joyful if someone kept rasmol alive.

But viewmol is also an alternative which I've continued to find useful.

Drew