[Debichem-devel] Intending to remove jmol-applet while upgrading jmol

[Andrius Merkys]

Hi Pierre,

On 2021-09-15 22:10, Pierre Gruet wrote:
> I am currently working on updating the jmol package. Andrius had already
> started doing so some months ago.

I am very happy to see someone working on that, thanks!

> I would like to fill a removal request for jmol-applet on behalf of the
> team. jmol-applet is one of the four binary packages built from jmol.
> The reasons are:
> - upstream is not providing a working applet anymore...
> - and indeed, we have been shipping a jmol-applet with no working applet
> inside for 5 years;
> - the popcon score has been decreasing since then;
> - the java Applet class is deprecated since Java 9;
> - because of the applet part, jmol is going to FTBFS when OpenJDK 17
> becomes the default in Debian (see bug #981989).

These are all very valid reasons for the removal, so I would say go for
it as well.

Best,
Andrius