[Debichem-devel] JSmol in Debian

[Andrius Merkys]

Hi Ximin,

I recall your efforts to bring JSmol to Debian. Your discussions with
Bob Hanson document the process and its troubles quite well [1][2], but
the exchange seemingly broke off in late 2016. Are there any news since
then?

I am working to package FinalCif (ITP here [3]) which embeds JSmol JS
module [4]. While the file itself is not minified and contains proper
comments, lintian throws source-is-missing error, most likely due to
overlong lines. Personally I think this file is suitable to be
distributed in Debian (given the license which I believe is F/LOSS), but
I would be glad to hear more opinions.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/jmol/bugs/587/
[2] https://sourceforge.net/p/jmol/bugs/589/
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/999508
[4]
https://github.com/dkratzert/FinalCif/blob/c4ba3635eef56ec47992af5ba1cb2a0e12528659/finalcif/displaymol/JSmol_dk.nojq.lite.js

Best,
Andrius