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

[Ove Kaaven]

Den 19. aug. 2010 23:45, skrev Stephen Kitt:
>> 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.

Wine 1.2 depends on wine-gecko, it's that simple. Packaging without 
would be asking for RC bugs, as the result would go against Debian 
standards - for example, things like the security implications of 
automatically downloading and running untrusted binaries from the 
Internet with no sandboxing and no cryptographic verification of either 
the binaries themselves or the web server hosting the binaries.

Unfortunately, it seems that wine-gecko can't easily be built without 
gcc 4.5, and I'm skeptical myself about updating gcc-mingw32 to that 
version for this, and if I am, I imagine the release team doubly so.

Also, I've been busy, of course...

>> 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!

There's some patch for c2man.pl in the last posting of #579890, is it 
related?