Re: Bug#808414: ITP: ms-sys -- Program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records

[Andrew Shadura <andrew@shadura.me>]

On 19 December 2015 at 22:25, Lucas Castro <lucascastroborges@gmail.com> wrote:
> * Package name    : ms-sys
>   Version         : 0.0.28
>   Upstream Author : Henrik Carlqvist <henca@users.sourceforge.net>
> * URL             : http://ms-sys.sourceforge.net/
> * License         : GPL-2+
>   Programming Lang: C
>   Description     : Program for writing Microsoft compatible boot records
>
> The program does the same as Microsoft "fdisk /mbr" to a hard disk
>  or "sys d:" to a floppy or FAT partition except that it does not copy
>  any system files, only the boot record is written.
>
> It's usual in day-to-day of sysadmin the OS installation,
> and with this package become easier to write boot record
> for MS OSes on flashs and so create MS OS bootable flash.
> I'll maintain this package by myself.

I'm quite certain this software can't enter Debian main, and I'm
unsure about non-free, as in includes dumps of boot records apparently
copyrighted by Microsoft, and even if there wasn't this they don't
come with the complete source code.

You may try packaging ms-sys-free instead, but I don't know how useful
that package would be.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrew