[Debichem-devel] Bug#1132028: jmol: reading a .cif does not advance beyond the optional preview

[Pierre Gruet]

Hello,


On Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:31:14 +0100 Norwid Behrnd <nbehrnd at yahoo.com> wrote:
 > Package: jmol
 > Version: 16.2.33+dfsg-1
 > Severity: important
 > X-Debbugs-Cc: nbehrnd at yahoo.com
 >
 > Dear Maintainer,
 >
 > In an instance of Debian 13/stable, I installed Jmol 16.2.33 via 
`sudo apt-get
 > install jmol`. While the program starts up as expected, reading the 
structure
 > file of interest fails midway: with File -> Open, the widget to 
access the file
 > of interest recognizes for instance .cif and .xyz and provides the 
optional
 > preview. However, the subsequent confirmation to use this very file 
does not
 > lead to the display of the structure in Jmol's main pane.
 >
 > The very same files are successfully read and displayed by Avogadro 
(1.100.0)
 > equally installed via `apt` from the same releases' repository.
 >
 >

Thanks a lot for your detailed bug report!
I could see it also showed up in version 16.2.37 in unstable. Today, in 
unstable, I upgraded to version 16.3.55 and the bug is now fixed there.

I cannot find out what specific change in the source fixed the issue, I 
think I will try to backport this latest upstream version to stable 
within a few days. I will let you know!

Best wishes,

-- 
Pierre
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