dosbox: please improve interoperability with wine

[Graham Inggs]

Since wine 1.3.12, wine will attempt to launch MS-DOS executables with
dosbox [1].
For this integration to work, dosbox needs to support the 'mount -z y'
command to move the Z: mount to Y:.

This feature was added upstream in r3736 [2].

I examined the svn log to find other patches relating to wine and
found one other; r3742 [3].

Please consider including the two attached patches to improve
interoperability with wine.

[1] https://www.winehq.org/announce/1.3.12
[2] http://sourceforge.net/p/dosbox/code-0/3736/
[3] http://sourceforge.net/p/dosbox/code-0/3743/

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

dosbox 0.74 built with the two above-mentioned patches available in my PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~ginggs/+archive/ubuntu/testing

[shankao (shankao)]

It works perfectly, thanks!
Any idea if upstream is planning to do any release soon? 0.74 is some years old

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

@shankao: No idea. I tried sending qbix79 a message through sourceforge but got no reply.
Would you try opening a ticket please?
http://sourceforge.net/p/dosbox/_list/tickets?source=navbar

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

Now we just need wine to bump the Suggests on dosbox to a Recommends.

[shankao (shankao)]

Ticket added with a link back to this bug report: https://sourceforge.net/p/dosbox/feature-requests/106/

Looking at the latest svn log, ripsaw8080 seems active enough to be worth a try too

It's a pity to be just getting now features into ubuntu that were developed upstream more than 3 years ago.

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

The attached patch for wine1.6 bumps Suggests: dosbox:any to Recommends: dosbox (>= 0.74-4.2~).
Dosbox 0.74-4.2 includes the Wine interoperability patches and is marked Multi-Arch: foreign. Recommending dosbox:any didn't cause dosbox to be installed.

[Graham Inggs (ginggs)]

This was done slightly differently in Debian; dosbox was added as a Suggests, and to the wine i386 package only.
See Debian bug 792125 [1] for their patch and explanation.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/792125

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Alexey (alexey.u.m)]

Fix in Ubuntu 16.04