Spectrum ROMs in RPM Fusion

[Dan Horák]

Jussi Lehtola píše v So 25. 07. 2009 v 22:02 +0300:
> On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 17:45 +0200, Andrea Musuruane wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >     I'm going to submit FBZX, a Spectrum emulator, for review in Fedora.
> > 
> > Fedora allows the packaging of Spectrum emulators but it doesn't allow
> > Spectrum ROMs, even though they are distributable. Therefore I'll have
> > to remove the ROMs from the tarball as it is currently done by
> > fuse-emulator.

Just a note - if an otherwise free and acceptable for fedora emulator
can't work (or do something useful) without a non-free firmware or ROM
then such emulator can't be accepted into fedora.

> > Since there is just one Spectrum emulator in Fedora, the required ROMs
> > are currently shipped in RPM Fusion by the package fuse-emulator-roms.
> > 
> > My idea is to make a package called spectrum-roms and submit it for
> > inclusion in RPM Fusion. All packaged Spectrum emulators will have to
> > be patched to find the required ROMs under /usr/share/spectrum-roms/
> > and should have a README.Fedora file that should forward the user to
> > RPM Fusion to install spectrum-roms. Probably it will also be a good
> > idea to document this on RPM Fusion wiki.
> 
> I don't think you can mention RPMFusion in a README.Fedora, that is
> probably against policy. You can put a general note that one must get
> the ROMs from someplace and place them in /usr/share/spectrum-roms/
> though.

> An another question is which package should own the aforementioned
> directory; it might be best to make all Spectrum emulators own it.


		Dan