[Debichem-devel] Bug#956260: Bug#956260: bkchem: should this package be removed?

[Sandro Tosi]

> To my opinion, bkchem is the best simple program for drawing chemical
> skeletal formulae.
> As a chemist I use it all the time. It would really be a pity if it
> disappears from Debian.

that's good to know and thanks for sharing this.

The situation is that every major Linux distributions are removing
support for Python2, as it entered its end-of-life status on Jan 1st,
2020. So at some point either someone steps in and port bkchem (and
all the othre required packages) to python3 or it will have to be
removed from Debian (at least from its stable release).

If you are knowledgeable to do the migration, or know someone that is
willing to lend a hand, now it's the time to act.

Regards,
-- 
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