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An Anonymous Coward writes:

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?

1. "grave bug" - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=766030
2. "Debian" - https://www.debian.org/
3. "November 5th freeze deadline" - https://release.debian.org/jessie/freeze_policy.html
4. "much unrest lately over the inclusion of systemd" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/10/18/0050245&tid=11
5. "threats of a fork" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/09/27/2211225&tid=11
6. "possible cancellation of the GNU/kFreeBSD port" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/10/07/2313245&tid=11
7. "possible dropping of support for the SPARC architecture" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/04/30/1340202&tid=6

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