jed: remove dos*

[Jörg Sommer]

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G. Milde schrieb am Mon 11. Jul, 09:21 (+0200):
> On  8.07.05, J=F6rg Sommer wrote:
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > I asked myself are the modes dos437.sl dos850.sl dos852.sl are usable f=
or
> > linux users?=20
>=20
> With dosemu or in case someone has the font and setup for dos codepages a=
nd
> dos-encoded files lying around, maybe. Rare but not impossible.

But with the same argumentation we can not remove vms_shell.com, because
someone can install simh and run VMS.

The other argument is, the debconf dialog of jed do not provide this
character encodings, hence noone should use it.

> > Should we provide them?
> >=20
> > The same with vmshelp, win1250.
>=20
> I favour providing jed with as few Debian specific patches as possible.
> What do we gain if we exclude them? Will packing jed become easier or
> more complicated?

Neither nor. IMO we gain a cleaner package without files they aren't
usable (look at dos437) and it should be much cleaner.

Bye, J=F6rg.
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