severity 388735 serious thanks Please note, that regardless on whether a package is provided in non-free or not, qemu-system-ppc requires a binary-only blob to operate, and hence belongs in contrib.
Rising severity because of that. On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:43:15PM +0300, Eddy Petrișor wrote: > Package: qemu > Version: 0.8.1-1 > Severity: important > > Hello, > > I was trying to start the ppc system emulator and found that the video.x > file was removed from the package since it was a binary blob only. I > understand that decision, but that makes the qemu-system-ppc useless, > since the user is not guided in any way on the path to make the > emulation work. > > Please provide a set of debconf questions that would allow the user to > download himself the video.x file, which is needed for ppc system > emulation. > > An idea would be to create a non-free package which does the actual > download, stripping and all (if the file is distributable, of course), > and add that package as a suggests to qemu. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
