hercules and Debian

[petterreinholdtsen]

Are you aware of the patches used in the Debian package, available via the 'debian patches' link on https://tracker.debian.org/hercules ? Perhaps they could be considered for a future release of hercules?

[Fish-Git]

You DO realize that Hercules 3.x is no longer being maintained? It is essentially a dead project/product? Its last release was over 6 years ago.

The most current up to date version of Hercules is SDL Hercules 4.x Hyperion.

Refer to the sidebar information in the wikipedia article:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules_(emulator)
   

[petterreinholdtsen]

[Fish-Git]

You DO realize that Hercules 3.x is no longer being maintained? It is essentially a dead project/product? Its last release was over 6 years ago.

Nope, I have no relationship with the hercules software myself. I just noticed the lingering patches when going throuh orphaned Debian packages without a git repo assosicated to migrate it to a git repository, and thought it best to at least try to let upstream know about the patches in case anyone care about them. :)

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-- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen

[misterspock1]

Debian lists it as orphaned yet it gets patches... Who is doing those patches?

You wrote > Are you aware of the patches used in the Debian package, available via the 'debian patches' link on https://tracker.debian.org/hercules ? Perhaps they could be considered for a future release of Hercules?

[petterreinholdtsen]

[Michael Richmond]

Debian lists it as orphaned yet it gets patches... Who is doing those patches?

See the changelog entries of the package for who updates it.

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-- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen

[g4ugm]

Debian lists it as orphaned yet it gets patches... Who is doing those patches?

You wrote > Are you aware of the patches used in the Debian package, available via the 'debian patches' link on https://tracker.debian.org/hercules ? Perhaps they could be considered for a future release of Hercules?

These all appear to be specific to building for Debian. The recommended way to build Hercules has changed so they have no relevance to the current forks of Hercules.

[misterspock1]

Yeah, upon closer inspection I see that. I know I don't speak for everyone in the Hercules community but I do help run one with over 2000 members (though many are not active) and I would recommend to the Debian people, just take Hercules 3.13 out of your repos for less work... People that want 3.13 will just build it themselves. And if they want to be really helpful they could add 4.x to their repos instead. See the SDL Hyperion mentioned above! Just my two cents!

[g4ugm]

Whilst SDL Hercules is the most actively developed there is also https://github.com/Hercules-Aethra/aethra from Jay Maynard which focuses more on Classic IBM operating systems. It would be nice to have both, although with the advent of Hercules-Helper https://github.com/wrljet/hercules-helper building should either is easy..