Reinhard Tartler skrev:
Have you considered talking to Scott Ritchie <scottritchie@ubuntu.com> and/or to Stephan Hermann <sh@linux-server.org>? They both have worked on the wine package in ubuntu quite successfully AFAIS, and TBH, I don't see a particular reason why the package should be diverged across the two distributions.
I don't have anything against them helping, but I don't think we agree on how to package Wine. For example, I (and some people who agree with me for some reason) think the package should be split (like other big packages in Debian) with each subpackage having strict dependencies, while Scott thinks it's better to make it one big package, with each Wine component working or failing (gracefully) according to what dependencies the user happen to have installed. That means our packages will be different.
I'm pretty sure they would have seen this RFH anyways since I did Cc wine-devel (which they presumably read) when filing it, but I only expected them to answer if they're fine not doing things the Ubuntu way - which pretty much means I don't *really* expect them to answer, I guess.