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On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 06:51:40PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote:
>Package: cdimage.debian.org
>Severity: normal
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>Using both the DVD and CD images of Etch 4.0r0, the packages
>spectemu-x11 and spectemu-svga are missing even though they are listed
>in the package files and aptitude sees them as available.
Hi Tom,
In which Packages files? As far as I can see, none (directly):
sledge:/home/steve/iso# zgrep "^Package: spectemu" /mnt?/dists/etch/*/binary-i386/Packages.gz
/mnt3/dists/etch/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz:Package: spectemu-common
sledge:/home/steve/iso# isoinfo -fR -i debian-40r0-i386-DVD-3.iso | grep spectemu
/pool/contrib/s/spectemu
/pool/contrib/s/spectemu/spectemu-common_0.94a-5_i386.deb
I only see spectemu-common on the DVDs. What you're probably seeing is
apt picking up on the mentions of (spectemu-x11 | spectemu-svga) in
the Suggests: line of spectemu-common:
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Package: spectemu-common
Priority: optional
Section: contrib/otherosfs
Installed-Size: 172
Maintainer: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Source: spectemu
Version: 0.94a-5
Replaces: xspectemu
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.0.2), libstdc++6 (>= 4.0.2-4)
Suggests: spectemu-x11 | spectemu-svga
Filename: pool/contrib/s/spectemu/spectemu-common_0.94a-5_i386.deb
Size: 62256
MD5sum: 069f418df6c7e589504249ca4142e714
SHA1: a036d433d6173f8016c9b899d75c368c4bd3e92d
SHA256: 2070e8fe6fa33df3b4969985ebbc1616b7e763ea08281196bc9d682af140267b
Description: Fast 48k ZX Spectrum Emulator (common files)
Spectemu emulates the 48k ZX Spectrum, which uses the Z80 microprocessor.
This package contains common configuration files and utilities which are or
can be used by either the X11 or the SVGAlib frontend.
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It emulates the Z80 processor as well as the 48k Spectrum's other
hardware: keyboard, screen, sound, tape I/O. The emulation is very
close to the real thing, but it is still quite fast (It was reported
to be working well on a laptop with 486 at 25MHz!). On the other hand,
the user interface is not the best.
.
Features include:
- Sound support through Linux kernel sound-card driver.
- Snapshot saving and loading (.Z80 and .SNA format)
- Tape emulation: loading from tape files (.TAP and .TZX format)
- Optional quick loading of tapes.
- Saving to tape files.
- Separate utility to save tape files to real tape
- Configurable with config files and from command line
Tag: hardware::emulation, special::auto-inst-parts
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As they are only Suggests: then debian-cd would not be forced to try
and include those packages when making official CD/DVD sets. Those
packages (in turn) depend on the (non-free / non-available) package
spectrum-roms; that missing dependency is why they didn't make the
CDs/DVDs themselves. This is a known feature of contrib/non-free
package combinations on Debian CDs, and it's not one that we can
change, I'm afraid.
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
Google-bait: http://www.debian.org/CD/free-linux-cd
Debian does NOT ship free CDs. Please do NOT contact the mailing
lists asking us to send them to you.
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