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: 2) by Arik on Saturday October 25 2014, @11:29PM
What kind of idiot stares at compiler output? Seriously, wtf?
First off, just about anything you could possibly want is already available as a binary, so if you're the type that would rather have a whopper than a filet mignon, go for it.
But if you do want to (or, much less likely, need to) compile something, you act like that's some sort of chore, so clearly you've never done it. It's no chore at all. On modern hardware it's usually something that can be done in seconds, after all. Sure, compiling something huge (like say you decide to recompile your entire KDE installation just for fun) can take some time, but it's not like you would be forced to do that (binaries for big compiles like KDE and GNOME are easily obtained) and even if you want to do it, you dont sit and stare at compiler output. You press enter and then go to sleep/lunch/the park whatever while it works. When you come back it's done.
The computer is supposed to be your servant, not your taskmaster.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 26 2014, @01:08AM
What else is he supposed to do, use Chrome during the 8 hours it takes to compile it? Or should he use KDE during the week it takes to compile it instead, maybe? Oh, wait, none of that is possible. You can't use the software until it's done compiling!
(Score: 1) by Pino P on Monday November 24 2014, @12:48AM
Then download the binary for the generic architecture and use that in a chroot while compiling a fully optimized build.