On Sun, 02 Dec 2007, Frédéric Brière wrote: > 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).
[...] > I guess it all depends on what Policy means by "require a package for > compilation". Does this include the ability to modify any part of the > source beforehand? Generally speaking, yes. It's less clear in the case of firmware though, as the ftpmasters have not been requiring source for that, so long as there is a license to redistribute in a manner appropriate for distribution by Debian mirrors. [It's definetly ok to go in contrib, regardless.] It'd probably be ideal to get a cc65 compatibility mode for xa65, but that's almost definetly more work than xa65 people are probably willing to do. Don Armstrong -- Cheop's Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p242 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
