Bug#479659: RFH: wine -- Windows API implementation
hi,
On Tue, 06 May 2008 09:52:07 +0200
Ove Kaaven <ovek@arcticnet.no> wrote:
> 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.
Fun part, do we know how many people are using the official wine
packages from debian, and how many debian user are using the inofficial
ones provided from winehq?
AFAIK (this happens at least on Ubuntu) most people are using the new
crack packages from winehq...since Scotts not in the Ubuntu MOTU team,
we have at least a sync between winehq and ubuntu in general. And it
seems, this pleases the user much more...:)
> 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.
You guessed wrong :) At least it would be good to follow the "one way
to go" policy for both distros :) for the users sake...not the
developers ;)
\sh
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