Hello Ryan, Ryan C. Underwood wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:27:01PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > > > I wonder if the reasons that dosemu is in contrib are still valid. > > The only thing that a package in main must fulfil over packages in > > contrib is: > > > > * must not require a package outside of _main_ for compilation > > or execution (thus, the package must not declare a "Depends", > > "Recommends", or "Build-Depends" relationship on a non-_main_ > > package), > > I think it's the same problem as with any other emulator package, that > nothing useful can be done with the emulator itself, and there is no > dosemu compatible software in main, so it effectively requires a package > outside of main in order to be useful. > > I agree that according to the letter of policy it should be in main and > so should any other platform emulator. In my eyes it's important here that FreeDOS is included in the dosemu package. So you can at least start dosemu and get a prompt. Without that I would agree that dosemu should stay in contrib. (I don't know about the other platform emulators.)
I'm sure that a library that has no packages depending on it can go to main, too. It's not useful and actually you cannot even use it without an addional piece of software. I admit that I have dosemu installed to run an (admittedly non-free) application that is (obviously) not in main. Still I think the decision about going to main or not is a matter of licenses and not usefulnes. BTW, if dosemu would go to main, #442863 could be solved easily because the amd64 package would be build automatically. Best regards Uwe -- Uwe Kleine-König, Software Engineer Digi International GmbH Branch Breisach, Küferstrasse 8, 79206 Breisach, Germany Tax: 315/5781/0242 / VAT: DE153662976 / Reg. Amtsgericht Dortmund HRB 13962 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
