Hi, On Tuesday 10 May 2005 19:49, Bas Wijnen wrote: > Joost Yervante Damad wrote: > > Hi Bas, > > Hi Joost, > > >>OpenMSX has a Depends: on cbios, while it is possible to have a useful > >>package without it (by including a ROM file ripped from a real MSX > >>machine). People who want to use their own ROMs are thus forced to > >>install cbios, which is not good. > > > > C-BIOS is only a few 100 kilobytes large. Compared to openMSX it is > > really tiny. I don't really believe that is a realistic argument. > > Well, but in that case there's not really a point in making it a > separate package. The files could just be in the openmsx package. If > you want to do it The Right Way(tm), then I would go for that > completely, not half.
No, because cbios is a different upstream, it makes perfect sense to have a separate package. Also, cbios is platform independant, and openmsx is not. > >>I think there should instead be a Depends: on a virtual package (called > >>msx-systemrom or something) which is provided by cbios. Then someone > >>who has a ripped ROM could create a package from that which also > >>provides the virtual package. If it is done in this way, it might be > >>good to make a script for that, as most people will not know how to make > >>a debian package. :-) > > > > As long as there are no other DFSG-free openmsx bios roms in debian, I > > think a plain depend is just fine. > > Of course the ripped ROMs are not just DFSG-non-free, they cannot even > be distributed in debian/non-free. The point is that some people will > use their own ROMs, and they still need to have cbios installed now > (unless they Provide: it in their custom package, but that would be a > hack, as such a package doesn't actually provide cbios). > > > About the scripts, there are already such scripts. However it is not my > > intention to provide them as part of the debian package. Feel free to ask > > for them on #openMSX any time. > > I know there are scripts for building packages, but I meant a script > solely for building a debian package out of a ROM file, which Provides: > msx-systemrom or whatever the virtual package name would be. As long as > you choose not to make a virtual package, it doesn't make sense to > create that script. :-) No there is a script that make a debian package from msx roms files. > > If you don't mind I'd like to close this bug, or convince me otherwise :) > > Since it's a matter of opinion, there's not much point in keeping it > open if you don't agree. ;-) > > Bye, > Bas Joost -- The planet Andete is infamous for it's killer edible poets.
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