Bug#917027: ITP: jerry -- Jerry is a chess program/graphical user interface.

[Dominik Klein <Dominik.Klein@outlook.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Dominik Klein <Dominik.Klein@outlook.com>

* Package name    : jerry
  Version         : 3.1.0
  Upstream Author : Dominik Klein <Dominik.Klein@outlook.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/asdfjkl/jerry
* License         : GPL 2+
  Programming Lang: C++/Qt
  Description     : Jerry is a chess program/graphical user interface.

Jerry is a chess program/graphical user interface. It caters mostly to 
two use cases:
- a beginner just wanting to play a game against a computer with 
adjustable strength
- a beginner/club player wanting to analyze/annotate a chess game

Jerry has a modern and simple user interface written in Qt/C++, and thus 
integrates nicely into modern Linux desktops. It allow to import/export 
chess games stored in PGN files, supports arbitrary UCI chess engines, 
and supports fully automatic chess game analysis.

The availability of chess GUIs in Linux is rather limited. There are 
powerful packages around, sometimes with more features than Jerry, but 
their GUIs as well as their GUI frameworks are often somewhat dated, and 
do not always meet the expectation of a modern GUI. Hence, I do think 
this would add some benefit for debian users.

I am the program author, intending to provide debian packages. An
RFS has been (prematurely) filed under nr. #916905.

best regards

- Dominik Klein