[Debian-lego-team] NQC packaging and upstream change

[Nicolas Schodet]

Hello Matthew,

* Matthew Sheets <mesheets at hotmail.com> [2025-04-26 20:02]:
> > I will have to exclude the firmware directory as this is definitely
> > not free software.
> I have deleted this folder, as those firmware files have been
> available elsewhere under the BrickBot organization and no longer need
> to be retained under the NQC project.  As RCX-related content began
> disappearing, I started saving things and did not have everything
> organized as robustly at the beginning (more just trying to grab
> things before they disappeared).  I updated the main README.md files
> to include links to those LEGO and Dick Swan "fast" firmwares.
>  - https://brickbot.github.io/Firmware.html

Thank you for your archival work this is really a needed effort as
everything disappear so fast.

> > I also do not have the licensing term for the doc/*.pdf files
> > neither the sources
> The documentation resources, including NQC_Guide.pdf, NQC_Manual.pdf,
> plus NQC_Tutorial.pdf and associated samples currently under
> BrickBot/NQC-libs, are all from the original SourceForge NQC site that
> released the software under the MPL.  Does this provide sufficient
> correlation?
>  - https://bricxcc.sourceforge.net/nqc/

Actually, I do not think this is sufficient to declare it uses the same
licence. Moreover, it would need to be released in source form. May be
you can ask John for the source.

> It appears you found the assembly source for fastdl.srec.  :-)

I will propose an MR to add it and include it as an optional step in the
build if you like.

> > I opened an MR[1] importing patches from the debian packaging.
> Thank you for the pull request!  The CI build passed, and it otherwise
> looked fine to me, so I've merged it.  Additionally, I've also updated
> the Makefile, updated the ChangeLog, and applied the new versioning
> scheme.  Of particular note for packaging is that Makefile updates
> include adoption more common installation variables, such as prefix,
> exec_prefix, bindir, datarootdir, mandir, man1dir, etc., which
> hopefully should help make packaging easier in the long run.

> A new NQC 4.0.0 release is now available
>  - https://github.com/BrickBot/nqc/releases/tag/v4.0.0

Thanks!

Nicolas.