Avogadro 1.95.1 contains two regressions that heavily hamper usability. I fixed those a few months ago, and while those fixes have been picked up by most major distributions, Gentoo is still offering an unpatched version. I'd like to be as helpful as possible to get Avogadro working on Gentoo. First bug: https://github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/issues/820 Fixed in PR: https://github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/pull/819 Description: most actions while drawing molecules would easily (i.e. every time) trigger data corruption, and cause unpredictable behavior or crashes. Second bug: https://github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/issues/754 and https://github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/issues/741 Fixed in PR: https://github.com/OpenChemistry/avogadrolibs/pull/825 Description: two of the basic tools for editing molecules would simply not work. Now, I'd like to describe what the recent development has been like. Next version after 1.95.1 was 1.96.0, which included those two fixes, as well as small features and a lot of performance work. Now the latest version is 1.97.0, which adds a couple of big features from GSoC. Finally, 1.98.0 is probably not very far away, should be out "at the end of the summer". So, whatever the maintainers see best (cherry-picking the patches or updating to a newer version altogether), I'll be happy to help. I can edit and test the emerge files if that's required.
To be clear, those patches affect code in sci-libs/avogadrolibs 1.95. If the pathches were backported, they would ONLY affect that package, while a version bump would affect both.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=99722c1e15796d7b5b60d59a43b1bc73f0657eea commit 99722c1e15796d7b5b60d59a43b1bc73f0657eea Author: Aritz Erkiaga <aerkiaga3@gmail.com> AuthorDate: 2022-09-03 15:57:03 +0000 Commit: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-09-07 09:54:55 +0000 Backport critical fixes to sci-libs/avogadrolibs Signed-off-by: Aritz Erkiaga <aerkiaga3@gmail.com> Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/868132 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/27128 Signed-off-by: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org> ...1.95.1.ebuild => avogadrolibs-1.95.1-r1.ebuild} | 1 + .../avogadrolibs-1.95.1-usability_backport.patch | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 82 insertions(+) Additionally, it has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=a25521396182617822aa285b16ac3af82cacea83 commit a25521396182617822aa285b16ac3af82cacea83 Author: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-09-07 09:47:05 +0000 Commit: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-09-07 09:54:54 +0000 sci-chemistry/avogadro2: add 1.97.0 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/868132 Signed-off-by: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org> sci-chemistry/avogadro2/Manifest | 2 + sci-chemistry/avogadro2/avogadro2-1.97.0.ebuild | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 84 insertions(+) https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=9e97c03aece8465ab60bf30fc1807267e2238d21 commit 9e97c03aece8465ab60bf30fc1807267e2238d21 Author: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-09-07 09:33:34 +0000 Commit: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-09-07 09:54:52 +0000 sci-libs/avogadrolibs: add 1.97.0 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/832528 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/712962 Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/868132 Signed-off-by: Andrew Ammerlaan <andrewammerlaan@gentoo.org> sci-libs/avogadrolibs/Manifest | 2 + sci-libs/avogadrolibs/avogadrolibs-1.97.0.ebuild | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 95 insertions(+)
