[pkg-wine-party] Bug#676246: Bug#676246: Bug#676246: Steam overlay is broken

[Austin English]

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Michael Gilbert <mgilbert at debian.org> wrote:
>> This wrong binary apparently may cause any kinds of harmful effects in
>> certain non-trivial circumstances (see http://wiki.winehq.com/Prelink).
>>
>> The real cause is an old version of the prelink package which will be
>> filed separately.
>
> Couldn't we just go ahead and get rid of prelinking to solve this?
> First of all, prelink is avoided on some of the architectures anyway,
> and really is the speed up using prelinking really all that
> noticeable?
>
> My opinion is just to do away with it.

It is needed for some copy protections/DRM schemes to properly work:
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1955
http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13915

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-Austin