Re: Wine MinGW system libraries
On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 02:57:20PM +0000, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> Le dim. 12 sept. 2021 à 14:16, Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> a écrit :
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 01:57:44PM +0000, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> > >
> > > I think you misunderstand:
> > > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/FreestandingArches
> > >
> > > They are a full color gradiant between:
> > > - freestanding arches pure cross compile without any depends except arch:all
> > > - partial cross built arch
> > > - partial arch
> > > - full arch
> > >
> > > I believe the first step to get partial cross built arch is to begin
> > > by freestanding arch.
> >
> > I believe this is mostly irrelevant for the discussion about Wine.
> >
> > Making Wine in Debian depend on such lofty ideas that might be available
> > very far in the future (if ever) would imply no Wine in the next Debian
> > releases.
> >
> > Debian 12 will be released mid-2023, which is only 2 years away.
> > Debian 13 will be released mid-2025, which is only 4 years away.
> >
> > If your partial cross built arch is ever fully implemented and supported
> > by Debian it would be a good idea to migrate Wine to using that.
> >
> > But a realistic solution for Wine in Debian 12 has to be multilib,
> > not multiarch.
> Yes but current solution used by wine should be compatible with
> multiarch. And It was since 2012 that multiarch exists. Maybe time to
> speed up
I do consider it quite evil how you are trying to steer upstream and
Debian maintainers of Wine in a direction where Wine would be taken
hostage for some lofty idea you have.
> bastien
cu
Adrian
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