9:24 a.m.
Hi all,
I've noticed that the latest version of plus4emu now ships
copyrighted ROMs in the sources. These ROMs are not installed and the
only place where the user can put them is, as usual, a hidden
directory in his homedir.
I think that we should move plus4emu from free to nonfree because of
this change. But other options can be made too. For example, I could
ask upstream to remove the ROMs from source and wait to package the
next release.
I'd like to hear what you think about.
Bye,
Andrea.
12:43 p.m.
On 16.11.2008 10:24, Andrea Musuruane wrote:
I've noticed that the latest version of plus4emu now ships
copyrighted ROMs in the sources. These ROMs are not installed and the
only place where the user can put them is, as usual, a hidden
directory in his homedir.
I think that we should move plus4emu from free to nonfree because of
this change.
Fine with me.
But other options can be made too. For example, I could
ask upstream to remove the ROMs from source and wait to package the
next release.
Ship the ROMs in a completely separate package that lives in nonfree? Or
is that to much work or for some other reason not a good idea in general?
Cu
knurd
7:14 p.m.
2008/11/16 Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora(a)leemhuis.info>:
Ship the ROMs in a completely separate package that lives in nonfree?
Or is
that to much work or for some other reason not a good idea in general?
Shipping only the ROMs in nonfree would require patching plus4emu to
look for the roms in a different location. Probably not a daunting
task but it requires some work.
Anyway that doesn't solve the problem with the source package where
the ROMs are shipped. I can strip the ROMs from the source but I would
have to do it for every new release.
I foresee these possible solution:
* we move plus4emu to nonfree
* we move plus4emu to nonfree and I patch it to look for ROMs in
/usr/share/plus4emu and not .plus4emu/roms
* we ask upstream not to ship ROMs as he did before
Because there are many emulators in RPM Fusion, I'd really like to
hear other opinions. This same problem can occur again.
Thanks.
Bye,
Andrea.
4:33 a.m.
Andrea Musuruane wrote:
Anyway that doesn't solve the problem with the source package
where
the ROMs are shipped. I can strip the ROMs from the source but I would
have to do it for every new release.
... which is something we have to deal with all the time maintaining
packages like xine-lib in Fedora. It's what scripts are for.
Kevin Kofler
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