Bug#585480: RFP: puae -- Amiga Emulator for *nix Systems
Hi Adrian,
On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 02:45 +0200, Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> have there been any recent developments regarding the packaging?
does not seem so ;(.
> I just stumbled across this RFP since a new version of WinUAE was just
> released as of June 2 [1] which now has the nice feature that it ships
> with the free kickstart replacement developed by the AROS community [2].
>
> This means, that WinUAE can be used without having to use the original
> kickstart ROMs. So I think it would have been a nice idea to include the
> AROS kickstart in the Debian 'puae' package as well. This way, the emulator
> will be able to run without any further non-free components which
> means that 'puae' could go into 'main'.
Hmm, ok. This would be a benefit (for [e-]uae just as well). Wishlist
bug?
> I am btw the maintainer of the 'kcemu' package [3] which emulates 8 bit
> computers made in former East Germany and I would be glad to help with
> the packaging of 'puae'.
>
> I also think it would be ok to drop 'euae' and 'uae' in favour of 'puae' since
> the former two don't appear to be actively maintained anymore.
Last time I checked, the "puae" software et.al.(tm) wasn't in a state
that made me inclined to package it ;), but this may have changed.
However, I still only see some git repository really; what state is
puae, as a software project, actually in?
When it comes to packaging, I guess starting out with the current e-uae
packaging as template would be fine; be sure it can co-exist with
uae/e-uae though, at least as long as I am not convinced it really
obsoletes them.
Then again, I also see a debian/ in the git repo, so maybe there is work
already done?
MfG,
Stephan
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