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Bug#973822: ITP: dosbox-staging -- DOSBox Staging is a full x86 CPU emulator (independent of host architecture), capable of running DOS programs that require real or protected mode.



On Thu, 2020-11-05 at 17:41 +0100, David Heidelberg wrote:
[...]
> Q: why is this package useful/relevant?
> A: Sucessor of DOSBox, which is already inside Debian
[...]

DOSBox seems to be under active development even though it hasn't had a
release for a while.  So this is an independent fork, not a successor
to a dead project.  (If DOSBox had become dead upstream, I would have
recommended rebasing the existing dosbox source package on DOSBox
Staging instead.)

I think this name is also misleading.  "DOSBox Staging" sounds like a
development branch of the original DOSBox project, not an independent
project.  Are the upstream developers set on using this name or do you
think they could be persuaded to use something more distinctive?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.

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