Bug#596899: Please unblock ia32-libs/20101012
On Tue, November 9, 2010 05:21, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov  8, 2010 at 19:02:08 +0100, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
>>
>>> Given that wine in Squeeze is the vintage 1.0 release that already
>>> shipped
>>> with Lenny, we should rather dump it completely. A 1.2 release could be
>>> introduced in a point release if necessary.
>>>
>> I don't think there's precedent of adding new software in a point
>> release...
>
> wine 1.2 wasn't in shape at freeze time, and although there were many
> offers for help, it was decided that getting it into shape in time
> would be too risky. There is always backports.
>
> I've fixed the wine ftbfs [0] and cleaned up the leftover ia32-libs
> debhelper files [1]. I need to find a sponsor for those. Anyone
> interested? Are there any remaining issues keeping ia32-libs blocked?
> If so, I will look at fixing them.
As for ia32-libs, I would be willing to sponsor it but I don't think we
should be making uploads for such trivial cleanup operations, is this
really necessary to get ia32-libs unblocked?
I can take a look at wine later this week if no-one beats me to it and if
the release team approves the change for squeeze.
Cheers,
Thijs
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