On Sun, 22 Oct 1995 23:16:12 -0600, Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> It was pretty easy for the 'watch' utility I packaged as my first > attempt to choose 'misc', but if I submit to Bruce's arm-twisting > and package some of my 29k cross-development tools, it almost seems > like they'd deserve a new subdirectory like 'cross', or maybe > 'embedded' (since they're for doing software for embedded systems?), > and if I chose to package up the latest cut of dosemu which I just > got working (fairly trivially, I might add), then it's not at all > clear to me where to put it? Maybe "games", since DOS is just a > toy? :-) Dosemu should go in contrib. I discussed this with James MacLean (the dosemu project coordinator) a while back and he felt that until a beta version of dosemu is released, it would be best to keep it out of the main Debian distribution. Also, Ian Murdock is (rightfully) concerned about having any program in the main distribution that is known to crash Linux. :-) I've been trying to put a dosemu package together for quite some time now. I'm glad you are interested since I've been too busy at school to finish it. It's not trivial to do it *right*, though. The biggest pain is the postinst script. It needs to step the (probably naive) user through the basic configuration. It must either help them set up their dos hard disk partition (and possibly cope with stacker, doublespace, etc.), help them create a bootdisk floppy, or help them create a bootable hdimage. All of these require that the user actually HAVE a copy of MSDOS. Debian cannot go around distributing Microsoft's command.com with the dosemu package. The FREEDOS distribution is almost stable enough to be included with dosemu, though. This will be a big help when it is ready. The dosemu package needs to be tight and well-maintained or it will generate a high volume of traffic on debian-bugs. :-) If you are interested, I can give you what I have so far. --Mike
