Package: vice Version: 3.0.0.dfsg-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Although Debian does not distribute the ROMs, it does have some pointers to help people find them. Currently the README.ROMs file and vice-getroms shell script both refer to getting the VICE-1.5 ROMs here: ftp://ftp.zimmers.net/pub/cbm/crossplatform/emulators/VICE/old/vice-1.5-roms.tar.gz While that works fine for x64, it does not for x128. Instead an error is given: Loading system file `/usr/lib/vice/C128/kernal'. Error - ROM /usr/lib/vice/C128/kernal: short file. C128MEM: Error - Couldn't load kernal ROM `kernal'. Indeed, if I download the ROMs directly from VICE-3.3.tar.gz like so, $ curl -L sf.net/projects/vice-emu/files/releases/vice-3.3.tar.gz/download \ | tar --wildcards -zxv '*data' I can see that the fundamental files "kernal" and "chargen" have been updated: $ diff -qr vice-3.3/data/ /usr/lib/vice | grep diff Files vice-3.3/data/C128/chargen and /usr/lib/vice/C128/chargen differ Files vice-3.3/data/C128/kernal and /usr/lib/vice/C128/kernal differ Files vice-3.3/data/DRIVES/dos1541 and /usr/lib/vice/DRIVES/dos1541 differ There are also many additional files that are required by VICE-3.0, such as support for various languages, low and high BASIC, and files for the C64 mode of the C128. x128 isn't the only program affected by this. xplus4 has a similar problem as does x64dtv. I suggest changing the README.ROMs and the vice-getroms script to extract the ROMs directly from the VICE source code. While this is wasteful as it downloads 20MB of data and keeps less than 5, I do not readily see any other source of the new ROMs. Thank you. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.8 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages vice depends on: ii dpkg 1.18.25 ii install-info 6.3.0.dfsg.1-1+b2 ii libasound2 1.1.3-5 ii libatk1.0-0 2.22.0-1 ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u4 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.8-1 ii libcairo2 1.14.8-1 ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18+deb9u1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.5-2+deb9u2 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-2 ii libgnutls30 3.5.8-5+deb9u4 ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.11-1 ii libieee1284-3 0.2.11-13 ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.5.1-2 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.5-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.5-1 ii libpcre2-8-0 10.32-3 ii libpng16-16 1.6.28-1 ii libpulse0 10.0-1+deb9u1 ii libreadline7 7.0-3 ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18+deb9u1 ii libvte-2.91-0 0.46.1-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3+deb9u1 ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1 ii libxxf86vm1 1:1.1.4-1+b2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5 vice recommends no packages. vice suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
