Re: Rasmol needs severe contribution to stay in Debian
- To: Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev@gmail.com>, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>
- Cc: 790196@bugs.debian.org, Graham Inggs <graham@nerve.org.za>, Debian Med Project List <debian-med@lists.debian.org>, Debian Science List <debian-science@lists.debian.org>, DebiChem Project <debichem-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>, Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen@gmail.com>, Tatiana Malygina <merlettaia@gmail.com>, Nadiya Sitdykova <rovenskasa@gmail.com>, Liubov Chuprikova <chuprikovalv@gmail.com>
- Subject: Re: Rasmol needs severe contribution to stay in Debian
- From: Drew Parsons <dparsons@debian.org>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 01:03:35 +0800
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On Tue, 2018-07-03 at 15:25 +0100, Carnë Draug wrote:
> On 3 July 2018 at 14:59, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > the bug log of #790196[1] shows that rasmol in its current state
> > will
> > not be distributable with Buster. Upstream is dead so if we want
> > to
> > keep it in Debian we have the option:
> >
> > 1) Port it to Gtk+ 3 (see porting guide [2])
> > 2) Find a Gtk+ 2 replacement for libvte
> > 3) Give up and remove this package from Debian
> >
> >
...
> Maybe option 3 is not that bad. Debian also packages pymol which is
> used even more [4] so it's not like rasmol users will be left without
> an
> alternative.
I'd be joyful if someone kept rasmol alive.
But viewmol is also an alternative which I've continued to find useful.
Drew
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