fs-uae emulator now available in Debian

[slaapliedje]

Very cool! Will it work with Debian 6 or only the latest release?

It's currently in Debian Sid.

In case you don't already know, Debian's release happens like this;

Debian Sid is Unstable, new packages generally come in here, unless it's a newer version of a program, then it goes into experimental, which isn't a 'full release version'.

Debian Testing (currently code named Jessie) is what eventually becomes the next stable release.

Debian Stable (currently is Wheezy, also known as 7.2 (they have released their second full update of their installers since 7.0 was released).

Debian Oldstable (currently Squeeze, 6.0.8 I believe is the most current if you keep it up to date and do a 'cat /etc/debian-release'.

Generally new packages stay in Sid for 10 days, and if there are no immediate breakages / severe bug reports in that period, then it is pushed into Testing.  So if there aren't any broken dependencies or bugs found in that time, then fs-uae should hit Jessie.  (I may be wrong on the 10 days, I'm pretty sure it's that or two weeks.)

I would ask why you're on version 6, since wheezy has so many improvements over squeeze, and unless you're on a server where you have to do extensive testing for everything you upgrade (I'm going through that now at work) then I'd update that.

Oldstable gets security updates for a year after there is a new Stable version.  If I recall, Wheezy was released on May 4th of this year, which gives another 6 months of security updates for Squeeze.

Not really looking forward to these upgrades myself (I already upgraded my home email/misc server to Wheezy a few months back, and going from dovecot 1.2 to 2.1 was a huge change.)

But to remain more on topic, AWESOME!  I actually jumped the gun a bit and grabbed the packages earlier from ftp-master and installed them, then a few days later, saw them in the package manager and promptly updated them!

slaapliedje

[slaapliedje]

Sweet, I did remember right, 10 days!  Didn't know that once it was in testing it could be backported, though that makes the most sense.

Wheezy is version 7 though.  Squeeze is 6.

[slaapliedje]

What, no m68k build?  Kidding of course, awesome work, and I can totally see only using distribution names instead of versions (in talking about Debian with others, I never say "You using Debian 7?" I always say "You using Debian Wheezy?").  Really the numbering system I think is just a courtesy thing to make it make sense to people who pay attention to such things.  It's kind of like how they went from 4.0r1 (for first 'update' for Etch) then the scheme of 5.0.1 (first update for Lenny) and 6.0.1 (first update for Squeeze) but now 7.1 for first update of Wheezy.

And really those 'updates' are only 7.0 with all updates as of when the ISO was created.  They aren't like service packs or anything, You'd still be running 7.2 if you install 7.0 and kept it updated.

This is why I love Debian.  Well that and you can easily (relatively) from 7.x to 8.x.  Where as all the RPM based ones I've tried, you are sometimes lucky if you can go from 10.0 to 10.1 (Suse was bad at this, I could manage 10.0 to 10.1 well enough, but then taking it to 10.2 broke it horribly).  CentOS/RHEL is good for 6.x-6.x but going from 6.x to 7.x... may as well reinstall.

slaapliedje.

Again, thanks a ton for getting fs-uae OFFICIALLY into Debian!  It's been needing a better package of UAE for a LONG time.