Hi Andreas! The packaged SIMH version is quite old, doesn't contain relevant ROM dumps and lacks the tools (still in experimental.)
For my own use, I've packaged SIMH (from git) and simtools to resemble at least a structured way to install/deinstall SIMH and its stuff. I'm not sure about other people's expectation on Debian's SIMH package, though my own is to have a recent version and all ROM dumps in a useful state. Would it be a way to split up the package (or move it altogether) to non-free? And possibly just live with GIT snapshots? Updating the package as new simulators show up shouldn't be too much of work. Maybe a quite simple approach could be to just put everything in ./BIN/ together, as well as all .bin and .lda files (and probably all the stuff that resemble machine check programs) to a separate ROM package? Another route could be to actually split up the SIMH Debian package into individual simulators, with SIMH package depending on all of them. Though I'm not a Debian Maintainer myself, I'd like to get recent stuff into the distro and would like to volunteer if that would be helpful. Thanks, Jan-Benedict --
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