Re: Visualboy Advance question.
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 01:38:51PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote:
> * Lewis Jardine <lewisjardine@tiscali.co.uk> [040710 03:49]:
> > The typical user of such an emulator is developing software, and using
> > the emulator to test it (in which case visualboy advance is no different
> > to SPIM or WINE).
> >
> > In my opinion, Debian contains sufficient tools to develop your own
> > programs to run on any emulator that isn't encumbered by requiring a
> > particular non-free file: hex editors, assemblers, compilers, and
> > documentation. To say that a typical emulator user would not have game
> > roms is like saying a typical user of gputils might have no PIC images
> > (and therefore gputils should be in contrib).
>
> If there are to be used with self-made images and debian contains all
> tools to create them, simply make one, put it under a free licence and
> package it (or cause it to be included within the emulator package).
> Then noone will dare to tell that this is nothing for main.
I don't think that the basis for a package's inclusion in main should be the
packaging in main of appropriate content. That would be a waste of archive
resources.
The prerequisites for inclusion in main should merely be a reasonable belief
that the program is useful without recourse to anything non-free, and
inclusion of the basic set of dependencies for correct functioning. I
believe that fulfills our requirements under the social contract, while
minimising archive bloat.
- Matt
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