Bug#507436: jalview packages for Debian

[Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org>]

  Hello all,

  Ages ago, I started to package jalview for the Debian operating
system (http://www.debian.org). The original "Intention to package"
can be found there:

  http://bugs.debian.org/507436

  Several things stopped me at that time, the most important one being
the difficulty to package jmol for Debian, as many parts of its
dependencies had unclear copyright/licenses. This has now been cleared
up (not by me), and I'm finally back to packaging jalview. However,
I'm hitting one problem now: the origin of the code for the
min-jaba-client.jar library. I found most of the source code there:

http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/jabaws/archive/jaba-client-source.jar

  Unfortunately, that jar contains already compiled classes, and in
particular the compbio.util package, for which I can't find source
code as of now. Is it available somewhere ? If not, could someone
please make it available at a well-defined location ?

  For now, I'm stuck at this point; it seems that it's the last bit
that prevents me from compiling jalview at this point, but I'm unsure.
In any case, it is a show stopper (see below).

  Any help would be greatly appreciated !

  Cheers,

      Vincent

----- Why do I need the source code ? -----

The Debian Social contract [1] requires that all bits of software we
distribute must come along with its source code. Hence, we cannot
distribute code only in a compiled JAR form.


[1]: http://www.debian.org/social_contract