Bug#479659: RFH: wine -- Windows API implementation
hi Ove, Reinhard, Scott,
On Tue, 06 May 2008 09:16:44 +0200
Reinhard Tartler <siretart@debian.org> wrote:
> Ove Kaaven <ovek@arcticnet.no> writes:
>
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Since my time may be limited in the future, I am seeking
> > comaintainers for the Wine package in Debian, at least to ensure
> > that new Wine releases may continue to be uploaded in a timely
> > fashion, and to keep the package's bug count down. (And given that
> > pretty much half the open bugs are "missing manpage" bugs,
> > documentation writers would also help...)
> >
> > I have created a project for this on alioth.debian.org. I've loaded
> > the current packaging (all versions since etch) into a Git
> > repository there, and put up some instructions on
> > http://pkg-wine.alioth.debian.org/
>
> 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.
>
the problem here is, that debian has a totally different structure
regarding the wine package.
If Debian, or actually Ove :), would like to go the way Ubuntu went
since Breezy, I think we can manage to provide a package which helps to
transition to new Wine World Order, derived from Scotts package.
It would make it also easier the Maintaing of the Ubuntu package,
because we can start to sync it from Debian in the Future.
IMHO, Scotts package is quite in a good shape, regarding support and
bugfixes + Win32 support on x86_64 archs...
We don't need to rely on anything else then some lib32* compiled
packages on amd64 and the stuff inside ia32-libs...
Furthermore, Ubuntus wine package does compile without any hassle on
lpia archs..
Ove, when you are interested to pick up Scotts Packages (he's the
winehq debian package maintainer actually) I think we would be glad to
help in the transition.
Regards,
\sh
PS: please use sh@sourcecode.de as email address in the future :)
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