On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:58:01PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > > > What is your interpretation of "We will never make the system require > > the use of a non-free component" ? > > We do not require the use of a non-free component. The qemu packages do > not depend on video.x (as it is not even packaged), and users are free > to not use qemu-system-ppc or only use it to emulate a PREP platform.
Ah, so qemu-system-ppc alone works but only for some use cases? Well, that is different then. Would be nice if you can document it, though ;-) > Please open your eyes, there are a lot of packages interpreting the > debian-policy like me, that is which have some functionalities disabled > if you don't have a non-free package installed. They are not in contrib, > and I am not able to find a bug report from you in the BTS asking for > them to be moved into non-free. I think I'm consistent, but can't recall if I did this before or not. Anyway, it wouldn't be very useful if I spent my time digging for an example of that, I guess... > >> You would have better > >> employed your time (and mine) by providing a patch to make the video.x > >> sources buildable instead of trying to get qemu-system-ppc moved to > >> contrib. > > > > I agree. But which sources? I could find references saying the problem is > > video.x won't build from source, but I couldn't find the actual source (and > > I > > looked for it in its origin at mac-on-linux project). > > You should have look better: > http://mac-on-linux.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mac-on-linux/mac-drivers/video_driver/ Urg, quite confusing considering the binaries are in: http://mac-on-linux.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mac-on-linux/trunk/mollib/drivers/ with no note whatsoever. :-( Anyway, this doesn't seem to be packaged at all? If it's just a FTBFS issue I could have a look, but adding a new package may be too much. I want qemu-system-ppc but not that badly. -- 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]
