Re: gchempaint

[Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 04:01:16AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> We at Debian etch receive regularly announcements of updating the chemical
> presentation (2D) graphics program gchempaint. The version available from
> Debian is useless for current submissions of papers, while the new one should
> be OK. 

I agree that the current version is less than ideal.

> I know there is a compilation problem with the version of OpenBabel,
> though I hope that those who can, will not forget that we are still
> dwelling with wine/chemsk50, i.e. deeply in the past.

The main hold-up so far was goffice (now that openbabel is resolved),
which is needed by gnome-chemistry-utils, which is again what gchempaint
builds upon.  the holdup was due to the fact that no stable version of
goffice was in unstable for a long time; this is now being resolved with
a dedicated goffice0.4 package waiting in the NEW queue.

Once this is in unstable, we will quickly update g-c-u and gchempaint as
well.  As soon as they hit testing, we can discuss backporting them for
etch.


cheers,

Michael