On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:35:39PM +0200, Irrwahn wrote: > Joel Roth wrote on 10.07.2018 20:50: > > Irrwahn wrote: > >> Joel Roth wrote on 10.07.2018 19:55: > >>> Hi maintainers > >>> > >>> I notice that dosemu is available through debian (all > >>> releases), but the packages are not in the devuan repo, > >>> at least for the ascii release. > >>> > >>> May be worth looking into.... > > > >> Hi Joel, > >> > >> dosemu version 1.4.0.7+20130105+b028d3f-2+b1 is in Devuan 2.0 ASCII. > >> > >> As it's in the contrib division, section otherosfs, you might have > >> to tweak your sources list to include 'contrib' in order to install > >> it via apt(-get|titude). > > > > Thanks, Urban. > > > > I followed a tutorial for upgrading to ascii. I think the > > instructions for setting up /etc/apt/sources.list for devuan > > could benefit from including contrib. > > > > You're welcome, Joel. > > Well, just as in Debian, the contrib and non-free sections are not > considered part of the distribution, and as such it's not particularly > surprising to find those not heavily advertised in (semi-)official > documents. (Although many of us have to rely on their presence, be it > to drive a particular piece of hardware or for other individually > important reasons.) > > The case of dosemu piqued my interest, as it being placed in the > contrib section would imply it is free software in itself, but depends > on packages from the non-free section. However, looking at the list of > dependencies I cannot make out anything coming from non-free. I'm not > sure what to make of this. Either I'm missing some important connection, > or it is some kind of glitch, possibly for historic reasons?! > I genuinely don't know. > > I have no experience with dosemu, and I do not know for what special > purpose you're using it, but just in case someone is looking for an > alternative from the free main (i.e. neither contrib nor non-free) > section, there's also dosbox, which I have successfully used in the > past to revive ancient software written for DOS.
Okay, I'll try this. I had a few numbers to put in a spreadsheet, and for some reason reached for InstaCalc, a DOS spreadsheet. greetings, > Best regards, > Urban > -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
