Packages removed from the debian.wgdd.de repository

Several packages have been removed from the archive:

CDK

The »Chemistry Development Kit« (CDK) now has been officially packaged and uploaded by Michael Koch. If you still have my packages installed, first uninstall/purge libcdk-java-doc, cdk und libcdk-java-dirbrowser (completely) and then install the current version of libcdk-java. Scripts found in cdk will probably be added to the Debian distribution soon.

Jchempaint

Jchempaint has been merged into CDK some time ago and there are plans to build/package it for Debian. My packages were just outdated. Please expect updated packages from the Debian mirror next to you :)

Jmol

Ditto. We are working on an official Debian package. I'm not planning nor working on an official Debian package. But there is an ITP (#512930) for it.

MOLDEN

This package was outdated. The current release is version 4.6. The packaging files have been moved to the debichem groups SVN. You can build the package yourself by using svn-buildpackage. Just download the MOLDEN source and the packaging files. Then set the configuration option svn-override=buildArea for svn-buildpackage to the place where the upstream tarball resists (create the symlink molden_4.6.orig.tar.gz -> molden4.6.tar.gz) and run svn-buildpackage with your preferred options.

We are currently not allowed to distribute MOLDEN binaries or its source with the Debian distribution. But we are in contact with upstream.

clamassassin

There is an official clamassassin Debian package for some time now. However, the package only ships the clamssassin script, but not clamdassassin.

pbuilder and SUN Java

pbuilder with default settings will fail to build a package depending on sun-java5 or sun-java6, because the license needs to be accepted first.

Now some time ago I saw a patch for pbuilder itself to “fix” this, but for the time beeing I used to set DEBIAN_FRONTEND to readline in my pbuilderrc. But today Michael Koch came up with much better suggestions: Preset the debconf value in the CHROOT and save it.

It's pretty easy:

$ sudo pbuilder login --save-after-login
# echo "sun-java5-jdk shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1 boolean true" | debconf-set-selections
# echo "sun-java6-jdk shared/accepted-sun-dlj-v1-1 boolean true" | debconf-set-selections
# exit

and voila, problem solved. Thanks to Michael for the tip.

Update

Manual Prinz suggested a slightly different way, that realizes the same debconf setting, but with hooks.