Re: RFS: fceu - Cross-platform Famicom/NES emulator (updated package)

2012-05-06 Thread Frédéric Brière
On Sun, 06 May 2012 20:01:27 +0200, Alexander Toresson wrote: > I am looking for a sponsor for the new version 2.1.5-1 of the package > "fceu". What a coincidence, I was just about to send you an email with various comments on your packaging effort. I might as well post them here, in case anybody

Re: RFS: opencbm (2nd attempt)

2010-03-13 Thread Frédéric Brière
Simon Raffeiner wrote: > > What is this IEC bus? > > See IEEE-488 / IEC-625, it is a serial bus used mostly by Commodore > and Hewlett Packard for a range of peripherial devices (digital > measuring instruments, printers, floppy drives). Actually, the bus used to connect peripherals to the C64 an

Re: Source format 3.0 (quilt)

2010-03-01 Thread Frédéric Brière
Tanguy Ortolo wrote: > For the 3.0 (quilt), the packed source is well defined, but I have a > doubt for the working form. According to dpkg-source(1), is seems to be > the .orig.tar.ext and a working directory with patches applied *and* > present in the debian/patches directory. Is that correct? T

Re: RFS: opencbm (2nd attempt)

2010-03-01 Thread Frédéric Brière
Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > Frédéric, why are these not upstream on the kernel, and if they are > sucky drivers, why not upstream on staging? My main concern is that because of the strict timing requirements of the IEC bus, the module may busy-wait for up to several ms at a time. I wonder if that

RFS: opencbm (2nd attempt)

2010-02-27 Thread Frédéric Brière
Dear mentors, I humbly beseech thee for sponsorship (or, failing that, helpful criticism) of the following package: Package name: opencbm Version : 0.4.3~rc2-1~fbriere+1 ITP : Section : contrib/otherosfs [almost main, on a t

RFS: opencbm

2009-11-23 Thread Frédéric Brière
Dear mentors, I humbly beseech thee for sponsorship (or, failing that, helpful criticism) of the following package: Package name: opencbm Version : 0.4.3~rc0-1~fbriere+1 ITP : Section : contrib/otherosfs [almost main, on a t

Can DFSG firmware not rebuildable within Debian still go in main?

2007-12-02 Thread Frédéric Brière
Hi everybody, I'm currently working on a package (opencbm, ITP #437316) which includes 6502 code that is sent to external devices (namely, old Commodore disk drives and printers). All of this (GPL) code is provided as both source and binary. However, the source is meant to be compiled with cc65,