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on Saturday October 25 2014, @02:41PM
from the whining-is-not-efficacious dept.
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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Wine Fails to Launch under Debian Jessie, Just Days before the Freeze Deadline
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @04:25PM
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @04:42PM
> "SoylentNews is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop. Only 11 submissions in the queue."
If only this were a scoop instead of the normal way debian testing works.
It isn't that this is an off-topic story (I have no patience for people who make that complaint), it is a non-story.
It kind of has a systemd-troll vibe about it though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @05:28PM
It's not a non-story. It's a major story. I've been using Debian unstable for a long time. I've got thousands upon thousands of packages installed. And I've never had one break this severely, from such a stupid problem that should have been instantly detected by any normal testing procedure. This is big news. I'm glad that SoylentNews is reporting it. At least now I know not to update wine any time soon!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @08:37PM
> It's not a non-story. It's a major story.
Only for someone who has a very self-centered perspective.
Come back when a bug like this ends up in stable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @11:12PM
It's a bug that never should have happened in the first place. I'm not even certain that the package maintainer did a minimal level of testing. You know, like installing the package and seeing if it works. Because clearly it's really fucking broken.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 26 2014, @12:15AM
Why don't your volunteer to do something about it, smartass? Get a dictionary and look up "unstable" and "testing". Fucktard.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 26 2014, @01:11AM
In the past, I would have. I've contributed a number of fixes to Debian packages in the past. I used to maintain several packages, too. But after the whole systemd incident, and the tyranny that it involved, I refuse to contribute to the Debian project any longer. When FreeBSD 10.1 is out in a couple of weeks, I'm switching to it, and I'm not looking back. I'm done with Debian as a contributor, and I'll soon be done with it as a user.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 26 2014, @02:15AM
But you'll continue on as a whiner . . .
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 26 2014, @01:00PM
Pointing out Debian's idiocy is much more productive than trying to contribute to Debian. It's not worth contributing until the idiocy has been cleared away.