> Please talk to us, how we can help in making DOSBox Staging packaged > on Debian?
> Cheers, > Patryk Obara Dear Patryk, I am not an expert on Debian Policy, or a Debian Developer, just a passerby who is also interested in getting dosbox-staging into Debian. One issue I can see with porting this package to Debian is that there are a lot of binary blobs in contrib/resources. Debug.com, deltree.com and xcopy.exe are the worst offenders. What are these executables? I see that they are legally redistributable but they also need to be open source and that source needs to be distributed with dosbox and compiled alongside it. I'm also concerned about the CPX/CPI files in freedos-cpi and the SYS files in freedos-keyboard. What are these files? Is there any way to distribute them as source files? Like I said, I am not an expert, so take this with a pinch of salt. I believe that if dosbox-staging was packaged as it is now, it would have to go into the contrib or non-free sections. Of course, it could be packaged without these files present, but I don't know if dosbox will just break without them. Regards, David James
