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LaminatorX
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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You two ought to be more careful--your love could drag on for years and years.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Saturday October 25 2014, @09:28PM
Really, it didn't. This is the testing distro, not stable.
It is not preferred that this big a package problem crop up this close to a freeze, but it isn't fair to compare it to something released as stable. That has not happened.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @11:17PM
Unlike e.g. Ubuntu, who puts the release date in their version number (and is compelled to meet that shipping date), Debian ships when the code is ready.
...and before they declare it ready, they squash all known bugs. [archive.org]
-- gewg_