Bug#1033278: wine: Battle.Net: The application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized

[Joe Nahmias <joe@nahmias.net>]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 11:38:23PM -0400, Joseph Nahmias wrote:
> I just upgraded from bullseye to bookworm and now Battle.Net / Hearthstone
> refuses to start. Instead it shows this error message:
> 
>     The application failed to start because no Qt
>     platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling
>     the application may fix this problem.
> 
> Was there some change in the wine packaging that would cause this error?
> Would additional logs/debug info be useful to troubleshoot?

False alarm. Seems to be related to an update of the Battle.Net client -- not
wine itself. See https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53826 and
https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/1148 for details.

Thanks,
--Joe