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Far too long!
Sort of makes me wonder why we don't have a debian-english doing
the same sort of review the other translations get...
I had no idea. I'd be in, many of the bugs I file are language bugs, since
they annoy me, I am a pedant, the burden of proof is light for me, and the
burden of fixing them is light for the maintainer.
Anyway, that's the usual deal. For anyone who is really into this
sort of thing, I have some other vintage package descriptions you
could probably grate your nerves against to good effect too ...
Let me know, I'll have a go.
OK, here it is:
Description: GCC 2.95 C/C++ cross-compilers targeting Windows
GCC 2.95 C/C++ cross-compilers targeting Windows (using mingw32).
.
Remove another bar to escaping from Windows: build your win32
executables from the comfort of Debian, using cross-compiling GCC
targeting mingw32. Comes with Win32 API headers and emulation of
the most commonly used POSIX APIs that Windows lacks (the necessary
runtime code is linked into every executable). You can even run your
programs under Debian using Wine.
This implies that you also suggest or recommend (I still don't understand
the difference) wine, which I find useful for testing the programs I build:
although Wine isn't perfect, programs rarely fail on Windows if they work
under Wine.
This is not particularly humorous, but tries to include a helpful summary of
mingwin's functionality, and generally make the package more helpful to
those who don't know this sort of thing is possible. As with so much in
Debian, I wished I'd known mingwin was packaged years ago, but never thought
to look; the package description doesn't solve that problem, but hopefully
solves the reverse problem, of looking and not realising that the
functionality you want is available.
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