Package: chemical-structures Version: 2.2.dfsg.0-18 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I am in the progress of pushing the efforts about updating jmol forward. As discussed recently on the mailing list of Debichem-team [0], I would like to remove the jmol-applet binary package from unstable because it is unmaintained upstream, the Applet classes are currently deprecated, and at some point in the future OpenJDK 17 will become the default in Debian ant it will cause jmol to FTBFS because of the applet part [1]. Everything seems to be ready for the removal, except that chemical-structures suggests to install jmol-applet alongside it. Yet, I saw you wrote the patch src~jmol~jmol.js which seems to deactivate the use of the applet. Thus I think chemical-structures is ready for a removal of jmol-applet? Please tell me when you think I can proceed to the removal. If you have some constraints this is not a problem and it can be postponed a bit, but as we will have to proceed to the removal one day because of the deprecation of the Java Applet class, I would appreciate to do it sooner rather than later. Thanks for your help, Best regards, -- Pierre Gruet [0] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/debichem-devel/2021-September/012760.html [1] https://bugs.debian.org/981989
