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?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @07:43PM
You should consider FreeBSD. It's as close as you're going to get to what Debian used to offer, before Debian collectively went stupid and started doing stuff like systemd and bugs like this.