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On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 05:19:51PM +0200, Christian Surchi wrote:
> I'd like to consider the situation of VICE package in debian. VICE is a
> CBM emulator (PET, VIC20, C64, C128). We have (in woody and potato) in
> contrib/otherosfs version 1.0. I think it's more than a year that 1.4
> exists. It solve some problems (included some bugs, because debian package
> has open bugs) and works better (support for C128 for example).
> I wrote to debian maintainer Giuliano Procida, myxie (at) d.o, but no
> answers and no activity in BTS too.
I was planning to take over this package from him. He more or
less orphaned it, and it was supposed to become my responsibility, but
I ended up getting busy personally before I finished trying to get
distribution permission for the ROMs. I *did* track down who owns the
rights to them (Tulip, in the Netherlands). I hadn't yet found out if
they know they own the rights to them. I was in the process of
drafting letters to them when my life got complicated again.
> I use it sometimes and I'd like to see a new version in woody. I could do
> a new package of 1.4 release.
The previous mechanism was to create a downloader program that
went to a known location for the ROM images and downloaded them. The
previous version stopped working, and I considered it a horrible idea
to build a package that will break on new installs every time a remote
site changes its layout. I *did* in fact create a vice-roms package,
but I can't upload it without opening a legal can of worms.
Ideally, I'll get in touch with Tulip sometime soon and get
permission to do it. The vice-roms package will then go into
non-free, vice will go into contrib, roses will bloom, the sun will
come out, and peace and love will reign on earth.
Other options: I find a nice host in a faraway land to host the
vice-roms package. I create a package-generator package, to allow
people to rip the ROM images out of the upstream VICE package. I go
back to the concept of an image downloading script.
> Another question. Actual package is in contrib, I think because of roms.
> Naturally we have no roms in debian and script that should download them
It needs to be removed completely. I believe that the source
package is simply the upstream source package, and actually contains
ROM images, though the binary package does not.
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Zed Pobre <zed@debian.org> a.k.a. Zed Pobre <zed@resonant.org>
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