Hello, * On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 09:01:30PM +0200 groepaz@gmx.net wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 24. August 2017, 20:08:50 CEST schrieben Sie: > thats the broken part to me. a) there are no rom files b) (much worse) if you > follow the information in the package on how to get the roms, you will end up > with a bunch of files still missing. [1] its no problem for someone who knows > what the symptoms of missing roms are - and that you can always grab them from > the source package or even the windows release. however for users who barely > know what "roms" are this can be a showstopper :) > > [1] i have informed the maintainer of the original debian packages a while > ago, so they may or may not fix these problems :) What is possible: Create a "vice-rom" debian package. I have done this myself. I provided Laszlo a "dummy" vice-rom-dummy package, that would be installed on a stock Debian system - without any file, that is. However, if a user adds another repository with the "correct" vice-rom, then he could get that one. This way, it would be even possible to always create the right vice-rom file automatically, and it could be pulled automatically, too. However, I never see it materialize on the Debian system. :( BTW, AFAIK, this is a big difference between Debian and Ubuntu: While debian will never ship the ROM files, as they contain proprietary code, Ubuntu does not put this burden on itself. That is, it could provide the right ROM files. But, as Ubuntu does exactly nothing to this package (like with many, many other packages), no one has ever done this, so Ubuntu is in the same "bad state" regarding VICE as Debian is. So much for the advantages of Ubuntu... Regards, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://www.trikaliotis.net/ Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing listReceived on 2017-08-24 21:00:02
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