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posted by LaminatorX on Saturday October 25 2014, @02:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the whining-is-not-efficacious dept.

A grave bug has been introduced into the "wine" package of Debian Jessie, just days before the November 5th freeze deadline. The /usr/bin/wine launch script fails with an "error: unable to find wine executable. this shouldn't happen." message.

Debian has already suffered much unrest lately over the inclusion of systemd, with threats of a fork being issued, along with the possible cancellation of the GNU/kFreeBSD port and the possible dropping of support for the SPARC architecture. After so much strife and disruption, can Debian afford to have such a serious bug affect such a critical package so soon before such a major freeze?

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Entropy on Saturday October 25 2014, @03:20PM

    by Entropy (4228) on Saturday October 25 2014, @03:20PM (#109935)

    It probably didn't happen on the test system(s). It's quite possible for a bug to manifest differently or not at all depending on what else is going on with the system in question. I doubt it was as egregious as "I never tried to run wine, it doesn't work?"

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @03:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @03:32PM (#109942)

    I don't think that's true in this case. Look at the patch that supposedly fixes it. The script contains some broken paths. It should fail on any test system.

    If testing was actually done, and it didn't fail, then something is seriously, seriously broken with the test system. That in itself is another inexcusable problem.

    So not only is the package itself fucked up, but now the test system hasn't been properly configured or maintained, either?

    Somebody has seriously screwed up here, in multiple ways, with horrible timing.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @06:33PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @06:33PM (#110034)

      To err is human... There are no inexcusable problems.

      • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday October 25 2014, @06:52PM

        by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Saturday October 25 2014, @06:52PM (#110038) Journal

        No. But sometime strings of errors smell of intent. This can be a mistake, but it can also be a mistake to ignore the odor.

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