Den 19. aug. 2010 23:45, skrev Stephen Kitt:
1. the dependency on wine-gecko really should be dropped for now (and when that package is ready, it should be at maximum a recommends since wine gets by just fine without wine-gecko). this is especially important if you want to get this into squeeze since no more new packages are going be accepted due to the freeze.Indeed, I'll remove it for now.
Wine 1.2 depends on wine-gecko, it's that simple. Packaging without would be asking for RC bugs, as the result would go against Debian standards - for example, things like the security implications of automatically downloading and running untrusted binaries from the Internet with no sandboxing and no cryptographic verification of either the binaries themselves or the web server hosting the binaries.
Unfortunately, it seems that wine-gecko can't easily be built without gcc 4.5, and I'm skeptical myself about updating gcc-mingw32 to that version for this, and if I am, I imagine the release team doubly so.
Also, I've been busy, of course...
also, there are about a thousand warnings about manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry, which is quite a nuisance and should be fixed, but that can certainly wait until after squeeze.That's what I thought too, they've been around for a while and are caused by c2man.pl; fixing them properly isn't obvious, since the appropriate form for the whatis entry uses information which isn't available in the code used to generate the manpages!
There's some patch for c2man.pl in the last posting of #579890, is it related?