On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:41:16PM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote: > Right now the amiga and mac m68k bootloaders don't exist in the debian > archive. This probably makes sense, because they aren't linux programs. > However, it makes locating them and making them available for cdroms and > such more trouble. > > The total size is about 2MB. > > What do ya'll think, should I put them in a package for convenience or > just leave them on a website?
I would recomend uploading them to contrib. After all, if i remember well, both amiboot and apusboot are GPLed software, which just need a foreign toolchain to build. The same will go for miboot, once we have reimplemented the first boot stage of it. See the thread about boot loaders i started, and the legal problems that have to do with it. This means that debian-installer in main will not be able to build depend on them, which is a shame, but we may create a debian-installer-contrib or whatever, which will build the needed stuff for them, as joeyh suggested. I have no idea how this can be regrouped into debian-cd or whatever later on. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
