Den 21. aug. 2010 03:01, skrev Svante Signell:
Please take this request seriously. Even if Squeeze is frozen, distributing the same version (1.0.x) of Wine as Lenny does not look good! People are trying to help out!
I wouldn't hold much hope. These are the options:1. Get wine-gecko built on Debian. Apparently gcc-mingw32 4.4.4 did not solve all the problems with it, gcc-mingw32 would apparently have to be upgraded all the way to 4.5.0 to build a fully working package. Not sure if the release team will accept that, and even if they did, packaging Wine 1.2 for squeeze will, by now, be a rush job that may result in a package with serious problems.
2. Allow wine to download upstream's wine-gecko binaries over the Internet, as it does by default. Wine 1.2 will do this even if you're not using any software which actually needs HTML rendering. It downloads wine-gecko binaries from a particular URL on SourceForge. There is no verification of the binaries; no signatures, no MD5 hashes. And Wine doesn't do sandboxing. IOW, there is no security.
3. Disable the wine-gecko download. This results in a crippled Wine, and both upstream and users will hate us.
4. Leave things as they are. If users want Wine 1.2, let them use backports.org or similar, or even download upstream's own Debian packages if they prefer.
I'm certainly willing to settle for 4...