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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, @11:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 25 2014, @11:12PM (#110101)

    It's a bug that never should have happened in the first place. I'm not even certain that the package maintainer did a minimal level of testing. You know, like installing the package and seeing if it works. Because clearly it's really fucking broken.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 26 2014, @12:15AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 26 2014, @12:15AM (#110114)

    Why don't your volunteer to do something about it, smartass? Get a dictionary and look up "unstable" and "testing". Fucktard.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 26 2014, @01:11AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 26 2014, @01:11AM (#110124)

      In the past, I would have. I've contributed a number of fixes to Debian packages in the past. I used to maintain several packages, too. But after the whole systemd incident, and the tyranny that it involved, I refuse to contribute to the Debian project any longer. When FreeBSD 10.1 is out in a couple of weeks, I'm switching to it, and I'm not looking back. I'm done with Debian as a contributor, and I'll soon be done with it as a user.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 26 2014, @02:15AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 26 2014, @02:15AM (#110134)

        But you'll continue on as a whiner . . .

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 26 2014, @01:00PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 26 2014, @01:00PM (#110222)

          Pointing out Debian's idiocy is much more productive than trying to contribute to Debian. It's not worth contributing until the idiocy has been cleared away.