Bug#144042: marked as done (RFP: freedos -- complete, free, MSDOS compatible operating system)
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From: Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>
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Subject: RFP: freedos -- complete, free, MSDOS compatible operating system.
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Upstream: http://www.freedos.org/
License: GPL
FreeDOS package in Debian would be useful for 386 emulators/virtualizators
such as Plex86 and Bochs, but the main need is for the DOSEMU emulator,
which is damned in Contrib until its dependancy on a free DOS implementation
is full filed.
Problems packaging FreeDOS are:
1. That the build system is DOS-oriented, and it would need either heavy
modification of the Makefiles or (preferably IMO) to be built inside
a DOS emulator like DOSEMU.
2. FreeDOS is built with nonfree C compilers in upstream.
As explained by Pat Villani, GCC is unable to build the FreeDOS kernel:
"The GNU C compiler currently don't support real mode (16-bit) X86 code
generation. In addition, it will not run on a PC using MS-DOS in real mode.
This defeats the purpose of FreeDOS, so there are no plans to port the compiler
at this time."
(see http://www.freedos.org/faq/cgi-bin/fom-serve/cache/30.html)
Maybe bcc can be used to build the kernel instead.
Feel free to take this RFP, and have luck if you do!
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Robert Millan
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Subject: WNPP bug closed
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From: damog@cerdita.damog.net (David Moreno Garza)
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Hello,
This is an automatic mail sent to close the RFP you have reported or
are involved with.
Your RFP wnpp bug is being closed because of the following reasons:
- It is, as of today, older than 600 days.
- It haven't had any activity recently.
- The amount of ITPs on the Debian BTS is huge and we need to
clean up a bit the place.
As this an automatic procedure, it could of course have something
wrong and probably it would be closing some bugs that are not
intended by owners and submitters (like you) to be closed, for
example if the RFP is still of your interest, or there has been
some kind of activity around it. In that case, please reopen the
bug, do it, DO IT NOW! (I don't want to be blamed because of
mass closing and not let people know that they can easily reopen
their bugs ;-).
To re-open it, you simply have to mail control@bugs.debian.org
with a body text like this:
reopen 123456
thanks bts
Replacing '123456' for the number of your RFP bug. The subject of the
mail is ignored. Or if you have any kind of problems when dealing with
the BTS, feel free to contact me and I'd be more than happy to help
you on this: <damog@debian.org>.
This is the first mass wnpp closing that will be done. The next close
will be done on inactive RFPs older than 450 days and finally, the
ones older than 365 days (an automatic script will close *inactive*
RFPs when they reach one year old).
A similar process is being applied to the ITP wnpp bugs in these
days.
Thanks for your cooperation,
-- David Moreno Garza <damog@debian.org> Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:54:42 -0500
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