[pkg-wine-party] WoW64 implemented Re: Call for testing: automatically detect wine arch and WoW64

Michael Gilbert mgilbert at debian.org
Sat Jan 2 22:16:44 UTC 2016


On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Jens Reyer wrote:
> Without wine32 there is no /usr/bin/wine now. I put the multiarch
> instructions to the README. Do we live with that, or should we change
> anything?

I consider this a regression.  The loss of the wrapper script drops
the ability to detect and tell the user how to enable multi-arch.

> I started with a new package wineserverVERSION (commits 1-5). The git
> history at that point gives a fully working new setup.
>
> However I decided to put the wineserver in the wineVERSION package and
> make that arch specific (commit 6).

The wine package should stay comprised of only scripts and manpages
and remain arch:all.

> Commits 7-9 are documentation and cleanup.

The change to default WINEDEBUG level and its documentation isn't desired.

> Unrelated to all those changes is the merge of the wine32|64-tools
> packages (commit 10). This should be possible now since they aren't
> multi-arch'd anymore (wine32-tools was still offered to me by  aptitude,
> which I didn't expect after the recent changes. This gave me the idea to
> just merge them.)

The tools really should be multiarch.  The change I made was a quick
fix for a bug, which needs a more permanent solution.  Please revert
this.

Best wishes,
Mike



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