[Debichem-devel] Bug#994715: RM: jmol-applet -- ROM; now unmaintained upstream

[Pierre Gruet]

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: debichem-devel at alioth-lists.debian.net

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Hello,

Could you please remove the binary package jmol-applet from unstable?
It is one of the four binary packages built from src:jmol.

I am asking this on behalf of Debichem team, we have discussed this removal on
the mailing list [0,1,2].

The main 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).

jmol-appled has no reverse-dependencies, it was in the Suggests: field of
chemical-structures but has now be removed from this field in unstable, and
this will also be the case in testing in a few days.

Thanks for your help on this,

Best wishes,

- -- 
Pierre Gruet

[0] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/debichem-devel/2021-September/012755.html
[1] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/debichem-devel/2021-September/012756.html
[2] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/debichem-devel/2021-September/012760.html


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