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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @05:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @05:16PM (#110000)
    Oh please, the good old days weren't that great. If this had happened 10 or 15 years ago, OP's bug would have been closed "WONTFIX: We don't provide support for proprietary M$ windoze shitware. See gnu.org/alternatives to find suitable Free/Libre replacements". And then we would have a 6-month flamefest about whether to move wine into non-free for enabling enabling dependency on proprietary Windows shitware.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @05:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @05:23PM (#110008)

    This kind of bug wouldn't have happened in the pre-systemd days of Debian. I know, because I've used Debian since almost the beginning of its existence, and I've used Wine since it started to become usable.

    Debian's standards have sunk mighty low these days. A lot of crap that just never would have been allowed before is being tolerated now. And we're seeing the result in crap like systemd being included by default, GNOME 3 being the default desktop, and now totally unnecessary bugs like this breaking lots of software.