Bug#453414: can dosemu go to main?
Hello Ryan, Ryan C. Underwood wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:27:01PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: I wonder if the reasons that dosemu is in contrib are still valid. The only thing that a package in main must fulfil over packages in contrib is: * must not require a package outside of _main_ for compilation or execution (thus, the package must not declare a Depends, Recommends, or Build-Depends relationship on a non-_main_ package), I think it's the same problem as with any other emulator package, that nothing useful can be done with the emulator itself, and there is no dosemu compatible software in main, so it effectively requires a package outside of main in order to be useful. I agree that according to the letter of policy it should be in main and so should any other platform emulator. In my eyes it's important here that FreeDOS is included in the dosemu package. So you can at least start dosemu and get a prompt. Without that I would agree that dosemu should stay in contrib. (I don't know about the other platform emulators.) I'm sure that a library that has no packages depending on it can go to main, too. It's not useful and actually you cannot even use it without an addional piece of software. I admit that I have dosemu installed to run an (admittedly non-free) application that is (obviously) not in main. Still I think the decision about going to main or not is a matter of licenses and not usefulnes. BTW, if dosemu would go to main, #442863 could be solved easily because the amd64 package would be build automatically. Best regards Uwe -- Uwe Kleine-König, Software Engineer Digi International GmbH Branch Breisach, Küferstrasse 8, 79206 Breisach, Germany Tax: 315/5781/0242 / VAT: DE153662976 / Reg. Amtsgericht Dortmund HRB 13962 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#453414: can dosemu go to main?
Package: dosemu Version: 1.4.0+svn.1828-2 Severity: wishlist Hello, I wonder if the reasons that dosemu is in contrib are still valid. The only thing that a package in main must fulfil over packages in contrib is: * must not require a package outside of _main_ for compilation or execution (thus, the package must not declare a Depends, Recommends, or Build-Depends relationship on a non-_main_ package), (Debian Policy, 2.2.1, 2.2.2) The Build-Depends: are all in main, same for Depends and (empty) Recommends. Best regards Uwe -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (300, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (300, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (2, 'experimental'), (1, 'proposed-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages dosemu depends on: ii libasound21.0.13-2 ALSA library ii libc6 2.7-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgpmg1 1.19.6-25 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.11-8 Simple DirectMedia Layer ii libslang2 2.0.6-4The S-Lang programming library - r ii libsndfile1 1.0.16-1 Library for reading/writing audio ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.0.1-2 X11 XFree86 video mode extension l dosemu recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- Uwe Kleine-König, Software Engineer Digi International GmbH Branch Breisach, Küferstrasse 8, 79206 Breisach, Germany Tax: 315/5781/0242 / VAT: DE153662976 / Reg. Amtsgericht Dortmund HRB 13962 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#453414: can dosemu go to main?
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:27:01PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: I wonder if the reasons that dosemu is in contrib are still valid. The only thing that a package in main must fulfil over packages in contrib is: * must not require a package outside of _main_ for compilation or execution (thus, the package must not declare a Depends, Recommends, or Build-Depends relationship on a non-_main_ package), I think it's the same problem as with any other emulator package, that nothing useful can be done with the emulator itself, and there is no dosemu compatible software in main, so it effectively requires a package outside of main in order to be useful. I agree that according to the letter of policy it should be in main and so should any other platform emulator. -- Ryan C. Underwood, [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature
