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ITP & RFC c3270, pr3287, possibly others



I've taken x3270, and would like to add some related packages:

  c3270:    Curses 3270 emulator (definitely)
  s3270:    Scripted (expect like) communication (probably)
  tcl3270:  TCL scripted communication (maybe)
  pr3287:   Printer support for c3270/x3270 (definitely)

These all come from the same place:
 http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Peaks/7814/

and are fairly close to DFSG - I'm working with the upstream and others
to get these all truely DFSG so they can go in main (x3270 is currently
non-free because of a college copyright misunderstanding).

The reason this didn't just go to wnpp is I'd like some advice on
packaging:
  * x3270, c3270
       -contain pr3287  (which also has its own package)
       -contain x3270if (an interface program for {c,x,s}3270)
       -contain /etc/ibm_hosts and keymaps
       -contain manpages for the above

So, I'm leaning on taking one package (say x3270) and having it
create a `3270-common` package which will contain the common items
and having the rest depend upon it.

Any thoughts (or wishes for s3270/tcl3270)?
-- 
Rick Nelson
<jim> Lemme make sure I'm not wasting time here... bcwhite will remove
      pkgs that havent been fixed that have outstanding bugs of severity
      "important".  True or false?
<JHM> jim: "important" or higher.  True.
<jim> Then we're about to lose ftp.debian.org and dpkg :)
* netgod will miss dpkg -- it was occasionally useful
<Joey> We still have rpm....



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