[pkg-wine-party] Bug#591837: Wine 1.2 packages with wine-gecko

[Stephen Kitt]

On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 00:21:50 -0400, Michael Gilbert
<michael.s.gilbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> i've just tested your package, and it seems to work just fine for so
> far. i would really like to see this get into squeeze.  have you
> and/or the maintainer talked to the release team about getting it in?

I'm just about to send an email to debian-release, although I reckon there
isn't much chance of getting it in...

> there are a couple somewhat minor issues i've seen so far that really
> should be fixed.
> 
> 1. the dependency on wine-gecko really should be dropped for now (and
> when that package is ready, it should be at maximum a recommends since wine
> gets by just fine without wine-gecko).  this is especially important if you
> want to get this into squeeze since no more new packages are going be
> accepted due to the freeze.

Indeed, I'll remove it for now.

> 2. there is a lintian error that really should be fixed:
>    'E: libwine-openal: usr-share-doc-symlink-without-dependency libwine'

I hadn't spotted that one among all the other warnings, thanks!

> also, there are about a thousand warnings about
> manpage-has-bad-whatis-entry, which is quite a nuisance and should be
> fixed, but that can certainly wait until after squeeze. 

That's what I thought too, they've been around for a while and are caused by
c2man.pl; fixing them properly isn't obvious, since the appropriate form for
the whatis entry uses information which isn't available in the code used to
generate the manpages!

Regards,

Stephen