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 Monday October 27 2014, @01:02PM
What's wrong with GNOME and Firefox, mate?!? They are now better than ever! This is just silly and unnecessary dramatizing of the situation. Nothing is going to happen to the Debian project. Not any time soon. Jessie will come out in 2015 and it will be as stable and secure as Wheezy.