Re: Retirement from Debian/Wine

[Sveinar Søpler <cybermax@dexter.no>]

I am sorry to see anyone go from any types of active contribution.

I dream of the day there will be less distro package dependencies if 
that ends up being the result from using mingw to compile PE-libs, cos 
it is somewhat a pita compiling multilib wine using Ubuntu atleast.

Best of luck to you :)

Sveinar

On 28.09.2020 19:08, Austin English wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 9:09 AM Jens Reyer <jre.winesim@gmail.com 
> <mailto:jre.winesim@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I'm sorry to say: I retire from being active for Wine and Debian.
>
>     It's mainly because the focus of my life shifted to other things. 
>     Maybe
>     that'll change again some time and I'll come back, but please
>     don't plan
>     with that in mind.  I'll be available for any questions and will
>     try to
>     help anyone with taking over.
>
>
> Sorry to see you go! Thanks for your work on this over the years.
>
>     * Build dependencies
>     A few years ago we only had to make sure that unicode-data and
>     khronos-api were packaged in the correct version. Nowadays there is an
>     increasing number of wine-specific build-dependencies like faudio,
>     vkd3d
>     and more.  Also upstream changed how it builds DLLs towards PE.  I
>     never
>     had a look on what that specifically means. Probably this helps with
>     distros retiring their 32-bit archs, and may change how we build Wine:
>     also build 32-bit Wine on 64-bit (?). I suggest to emphasize on
>     building
>     current Wine versions, even if this means that no
>
>
> FYI, the main motivation for the PE switch is to fix some DRM schemes 
> (i.e., https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21232 et al).
> --
> -Austin
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