On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 11:20:11AM -0500, Christopher Allen wrote: > As part of my new-maintainer process tasks, I'm packaging z81, a > Sinclair ZX81/ZX80 emulator. The emulator provides three binaries: a > X version (xz81), an SVGA version (z81) and a linux-console version > (z81txt). [snip policy] > I've given the z81 package priority 'optional', since this seems to be > the priority given to other emulator packages (e.g., simh, dosemu); > I would thus read the above passage as a stricture *against* building > separate packages for the X and SVGA versions (three in all). Can > someone confirm this? (And/or provide justification?)
This means that when a package produces one binary which can optionally have X support (like gnuplot), it should have it. In your case (and mine, lxdoom), separate binaries are produced with differing support; the svgalib binary is useless to an m68k user, for example, so have separate packages, and make the svgalib package Architecture: i386 only (since that's the same as svgalibg1). > Second, the text mode version isn't an ncurses program, but instead > uses /dev/vcsa0 - which I don't actually have! I do have /dev/vcsa > and /dev/vcsa1-63, but no 0. According to the z81 documentation, > these devices "linux virtual consoles" (but are somehow different from > /dev/ttyN ??), but I don't seem to have a man page. > > Should I point the console version at /dev/vcsa instead? Help! This I can't help much on, except to say that my devfs system does not have a vcsa0, either. vcsa sounds right.
