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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 HiThere on Saturday October 25 2014, @06:55PM

    by HiThere (866) on Saturday October 25 2014, @06:55PM (#110039) Journal

    Is there a stable tree?

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  • (Score: 2) by arashi no garou on Sunday October 26 2014, @08:42PM

    by arashi no garou (2796) on Sunday October 26 2014, @08:42PM (#110326)

    Yes, and you can configure slapt-get to work with stable package releases just as easily. Here are the changelogs for stable 32-bit and 64-bit respectively:

    ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/ChangeLog.txt [osuosl.org]

    ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/ChangeLog.txt [osuosl.org]

    • (Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday October 27 2014, @05:45PM

      by HiThere (866) on Monday October 27 2014, @05:45PM (#110604) Journal

      Nice. This is going back on my list.

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