Bug#595427: wnpp: ITP: winetricks -- Quick and dirty script to download and install variousredistributable runtime libraries

[Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>]

* Jari Aalto (jari.aalto@cante.net) [110315 19:57]:
> What is the status of this ITP opened 2010-10-03, 6 months ago? To my
> understanding winetricks:

>     - does not depend on external programs outside of Debian.
> 
>     - is a single utility that helps quite a bit to install WINE related
>       software much easier.

"downloaders" are typically considered contrib.



>     - has nothing to do with WINE package itself, so bundling it would
>       not be good. Winetricks update schedule is different from WINE.

Agreed.

>     - There is no sense of making integration "packages for WINE" like
>       those of Perl and Python, because WinE/Windows is too unstable
>       platform to target at.

I still think that building the packages winetricks downloads (and
installing them by normal debian means) would be helpful. However, I
agree with you that

> Could we just package it as is for the benefit of the users?

that's still better than nothing. Splitting things off could be a
second step.


Andi