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Wine Fails to Launch under Debian Jessie, Just Days before the Freeze Deadline

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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: 2) by Konomi on Saturday October 25 2014, @05:05PM

    by Konomi (189) on Saturday October 25 2014, @05:05PM (#109989)

    Yes, I read the patch before I replied to you and my previous reply still stands.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @05:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @05:25PM (#110009)

    No, it doesn't stand. This is the kind of bug that even minimal testing by the package maintainer should have detected right away. If this did slip through, then Debian needs to do a massive and thorough review of their entire testing procedure.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @06:57PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @06:57PM (#110040)

      join the wine team and help fix it, you entitled kid...

      in free software you receive a gift from developers and you are allowed to participate on the creative process

      you are not a costumer and they are not trying to sell you anything... grab this into your forehead

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @07:41PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @07:41PM (#110057)

        Joining the Wine team won't help. This isn't a problem with Wine. This is a problem with Debian. Debian needs to fix their shit.

        • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @08:12PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @08:12PM (#110064)

          Join the debian WINE team. Derp.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @08:52PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @08:52PM (#110071)

            Why would I waste my time and effort volunteering for a failed organization like Debian? The whole systemd debacle should never have happened. And this bug never should have happened. I have better things to do with my time than work with inept groups of people.