Debian maintainer ignores dosemu ?

Debian maintainer ignores dosemu ?

[easlab]

Am Donnerstag, 21. September 2006 13:17 schrieben Sie:
> Claudia Neumann wrote:
> > Hi!
> > I have urged the new Debian maintainer to update the Debian
> > dosemu package. It is still 1.2.1 and I am afraid it will stay
> > like this because the current maintainer has not done a bit. I
> > suspect that the current maintainer has not even used dosemu
> > himself. So if you want to use a current dosemu in Debian, you
> > have to compile it yourself.  :(
>
> Actually, in Debian Sid (unstable), it is now 1.2.2.
>
> But this was introduced only last June, and it has the default
> $_mapping = "". So it is guaranteed not to work on a updated
> Debian Sid system.
>
> Something must be wrong in the communication (two-way) between
> Debian and dosemu..
>
> It would be a pity if dosemu would die, either by the present
> conflict among the developers, or by neglect by the major
> distributions. There are many legacy DOS programs out there which
> are still actively used. I get between 100 and 200 non-robot hits
> every week on my dosemu page alone. There is still interest in
> this project "out there".

I'm still waiting since 2001, for it to stabilise, to be able to 
driver the par-port.  As root or non-root is OK.

It would be nice if the documentation was better than when I 
last tried to read it.  Developers [especially no english speaking]
shouldn't have to make the final documentation.

Some mechanism [perhaps wiki-like] to harvest the users
contribution towards documentation could possibly work.
Apparently Debian is 'strong on organisation [with a 
constitution..etc]' and they don't like DOSemu's chaos.

== Chris Glur.

Re: Debian maintainer ignores dosemu ?

[Stegozor]

easlab@absamail.co.za wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 21. September 2006 13:17 schrieben Sie:
>> Claudia Neumann wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> I have urged the new Debian maintainer to update the Debian
>>> dosemu package. It is still 1.2.1 and I am afraid it will stay
>>> like this because the current maintainer has not done a bit. I
>>> suspect that the current maintainer has not even used dosemu
>>> himself. So if you want to use a current dosemu in Debian, you
>>> have to compile it yourself.  :(
>> Actually, in Debian Sid (unstable), it is now 1.2.2.
>>
>> But this was introduced only last June, and it has the default
>> $_mapping = "". So it is guaranteed not to work on a updated
>> Debian Sid system.
>>
>> Something must be wrong in the communication (two-way) between
>> Debian and dosemu..
>>
>> It would be a pity if dosemu would die, either by the present
>> conflict among the developers, or by neglect by the major
>> distributions. There are many legacy DOS programs out there which
>> are still actively used. I get between 100 and 200 non-robot hits
>> every week on my dosemu page alone. There is still interest in
>> this project "out there".
> 
> I'm still waiting since 2001, for it to stabilise, to be able to 
> driver the par-port.  As root or non-root is OK (...)

I recently switched to Ubuntu GNU/Linux (debian based) and had problems 
with dosemu. Finally, I ended up by sending a mail to the debian package 
maintainer. He answered quickly, found a workaround and the whole thing 
is now filed in Launchpad: 
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/dosemu-freedos/+bug/56778 
so there's still hope especially now that FreeDOS 1.0 has been released :)