[Debichem-devel] Avogadro2 package patch proposal

[Michael Banck]

Hi Aritz,

On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 12:10:22PM +0100, Aritz Erkiaga wrote:
> The current version of avogadro2 (1.95.1) is affected by a bug
> <https://github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/issues/820> that
> fundamentally breaks molecule editing. I fixed it in this commit <https://github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/commit/c47d00c821ba77ea2b13aaa933cfc922f1980469>,
> as part of this merged pull request
> <https://github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/pull/819>, but no new
> versions have been published yet.

That commit c47d00c8 looks simple enough that we could easily integrate
it into the Debian package, yeah.

> Next week is the Debian Import Freeze for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, which will
> be supported until 2027 plus 3-5 years of ESM, and currently includes
> avogadro2 1.95.1. I suggest that you reproduce/test the aforementioned
> bug to evaluate its potential impact on users (which I believe is
> high) and decide upon an appropriate course of action:
> 
>  * Picking up the change in Debian as a patch on top of 1.95.1.
>    Possibly sending the new version to the Ubuntu upload queue?
>  * Waiting, then sending the new version as a FeatureFreeze Exception
>    or picking up the patch later on top of 1.95.1.
>  * Contacting the repository owner regarding a new point release:
>    geoff.hutchison at gmail.com <mailto:geoff.hutchison at gmail.com>.

Ubuntu is working independent of us, we can't tell them what to do with
our packages.

I suggest you either open a Ubuntu bug so that they cherry-pick your
patch directly into their package, or you wait until the patch is
uplaoded to Debian and then talk to the Ubuntu maintainers to pick it
up.


Michael