On 3 July 2018 at 14:59, Andreas Tille <andr...@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 > > Since option 3 would be a shame for a package with quite some users[3] > (at least in the field of scientific software) I'm hereby making some > noise about this. My recent upload updates metadata (Salsa migration), > fixed all other bugs and most of the lintian issues. > > I'd be really happy if someone could spent some time into this > > Andreas. > > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/790196 > [2] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-migrating-2-to-3.html > [3] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=rasmol
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. David [4] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=pymol
