Re: Bug#512930: ITP: jmol -- java molecular graphics system
Hello,
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Vincent Fourmond wrote:
>> Acme.jar obviously come from http://www.acme.com, which means it's
>> most likely BSD and therefore packageable -- if only I could find the
>> source !
>
> I guess you should probably ask the authors. I did some googling about
> tar.gz / tgz site:www.acme.com and got several hits inside some Java source
> files (for instance http://www.acme.com/resources/classes/Acme/Spider.java)
> to http://www.acme.com/resources/classes/Acme.tar.gz saying
> "Fetch the entire Acme package." ... but this files does not exist at
> this server.
I'm glad you found at least one source code - it means that the rest
is probably there, provided you know where to look - and I have pretty
good ideas about that ;-) ! More news later on.
>> I don't have any ideas yet about netscape.jar
> This question was partly answered by Daniel. I would try to find out
> the real purpose of this jar and consider replacing it by something which
> might be provided by mozilla.org. But this is just a wild guess and I
> have no idea whether this strategy is mromissing.
My biggest 'fear' so far.
>> PPS: for the same reasons as for jalview, I think it will end up in
>> pkg-java, as java packaging is something rather painful and delicate...
>
> I would be in big favour of this. After a lengthy mail conversiation
> about pkg-escience and a phone call between Steffen Möller and me I
> think it is fine if you move the packaging SVN from pkg-escience tp
> pkg-java - after having checked back with Steffen for sure.
So, Steffen, would it be fine by you, then ? I don't know precisely
when I'll start packaging 'per se'.
>> PPPS: would it make sense to have debian-med (or the @lists.alioth
>> equivalent) uploader for Jmol and Jalview ?
>
> IMHO there are three teams interested in this package:
>
> 1. pkg-java: high technical competence but has gathered a lot of
> packages and problems might be hidden amongst the amount of other
> issues.
> 2. Debichem: Interested in this package, but I can not comment
> on their interest according to maintenance
> 3. Debian Med: Only few Java competence, but interested in the
> package. If you do not mind to joind the Debian Med team you
> are welcome to use
> Debian-Med Packaging Team
> <debian-med-packaging@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> as maintainer address.
As far as I'm concerned, if setting a Maintainer/Uploader field to a
group means that there will be more people watching it and interested
to give a hand, I'm fine ;-) !
Cheers !
Vincent
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