[pkg-wine-party] Bug#735525: Bug#735525: libwine: many dependancies for libwine missing

Michael Gilbert mgilbert at debian.org
Fri Jan 17 00:52:57 UTC 2014


control: severity -1 wishlist
control: retitle -1 libwine: recommend or suggest more packages

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Andreas Wirooks wrote:
> Package: libwine
> Version: 1.6.2-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> I know that this is a private backport of wine to wheezy but
> I can see that also for the latest version i sid the
> dependancies of libwine are wrong.
>
> On my amd64 machine wine is the only package that needs
> multiarch and has dependancies on i386 packages. I get the
> error message that ncurses it not found and also found out
> that other dependancies are missing like libcups2, sane and
> i suppose that the dependancies lying in the old libwine-*
> packages like libwine-print, libwine-sane, etc. are not
> transfered to libwine.

The number of default dependencies are intentionally small.  Users can
choose to install that stuff if they want and wine will use it.  What
may be needed is to clarify which packages can be installed to enable
more features.

Best wishes,
Mike



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