#337 Provide a Debian package

[Renan Birck]

I ask that for future releases of Bochs, a Debian Linux
(.deb) package is provided, so Debian users (like me)
can use 'dpkg'.

Since you already provide .rpm packages, .deb packages
wouldn't be hard to add...

Thanks.

[Volker Ruppert]

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In the Bochs source tree there are some source files for building a
Debian package, but they are horribly outdated (for Bochs 1.3). I'm not
familiar with Debian (using rpm-based SuSE), so I don't know how to
update them.

[ytre]

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Anyone interrested go check packages.debian.org unstable bracnch for diff.gz files.
Seems there are many different packages with different architectures.
All you need to do should be
unpack, patch.

you get the source with ./debian/ directory

then you go something like:
fakeroot dpkg-buildpackage

rm recursively the bochs dir and repeat for each of the packages that you want.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Bochs packages are provided by the debian team (http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/bochs.html).
Is there still a need of debian packages by the bochs team?

• Sebastian

[Volker Ruppert]

Since some Debian-based distributions provide Bochs packages, we don't need to do it.