[Debichem-devel] debichem status

[Michael Banck]

Hi, and sorry for the late reply.

On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 02:15:29AM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> * gabedit
> upstream uses an outdated Gtk+Extra 2.0 snapshot to build it - so it
> does not build against the official Gtk+Extra 2.0 release, which already
> hit Debian officially - that's the only thing to fix
 
As it won't make etch, we got time to negotiate with the author now I
guess.

> * gopenmol
> maybe a candidate for main, but not sure - a package exists locally

non-free in its current form, but the author was open to discussion some
time (ahem, years) ago.  Independent of debichem, a person in our
research group was asking for gopenmol, so I was going to get in contact
with him anyway.

> * molden (maybe)
> definitive non-free (academic license)

Maybe we should start a "unofficial" or something branch in debichem svn
where we can put debian/ dirs for not-really-free stuff, like gopenmol,
molden and others.

Suggestions for better naming welcome :)

> * cdk, jmol, jchempaint and bioclipse
> already in the pkg-java SVN, but definitely need maintainers

Ah, ok.  Maybe we can ask them to take this over.  I was always
interested in this, but until recently couldn't get a statement WRT free
java from them.  I don't have any experience with java packages, but we
should care about them IMHO.

I had a list of some other potential packages lying around, but I can
find it now.  This is post-etch/feisty stuff anyway, at this point, I am
quite certaing notheing will get through NEW in time to make etch.


cheers,

Michael