Bug#249718: Do you still plan to take dosemu

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 05:19:40PM -0500, Ryan Underwood wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 09:54:27PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > Hi Ryan,
> > 
> > do you still plan to take over dosemu?
> > 
> > If not, please retitle it back to "O:".
> 
> Uh, yes?  As far as I know I was waiting on replies from other people.
> Was there anything wrong with the current package?

Are you talking about the package currently in unstable?

The last upload nearly 2 months ago was an NMU to fix an RC bug.

There are several issues in the current package, e.g.:
- #327153: problem with randomisation present in recent 2.6 kernels
           (Bart Oldeman said half a year ago that the problem is that 
            the Debian package uses the deprecated comcom)
           the workaround for this issue is easy, but a proper fix
           in the dosemu package would be appreciated
- #328652: new upstream version available
           I don't see any good reason why Debian unstable still
           ships 1.2.1

Even if you don't can immediately fix any of the open bugs it would be 
nice if you would get a package uploaded for showing that you have taken 
over maintainership.

> Ryan Underwood, <nemesis@icequake.net>

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Adrian

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