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

[Austin English]

On Jan 2, 2016 9:07 PM, "Michael Gilbert" <mgilbert at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 12:00 AM, Austin English wrote:
> > Yes,  in theory. In practice, many users don't report their
distribution,
> > and many developers ignore reports without the needed information.
> >
> > Why is it being overriden in the first place?
>
> Because when everything is working normally (the vast majority of the
> time for most users) debug output is just noise.
>
> For similar reasons debian puts debugging symbols into separate
> packages that the user has to explicitly decide to install.
>
> Best wishes,
> Mike

The vast majority of software that I run on Debian outputs noise, either to
stdout, stderr, or ~/.xsession-errors. I don't see why wine should be a
special case in that regard. If the output is blank or not attached,
developer time is wasted doing several back and forth requests to get
what's needed. I think developer time is way more valuable than reducing
noise in a terminal that most don't even notice (and users can override
themselves,  if they want).

Debug symbols are a separate issue,  it's common to strip those out, and we
can usually get some useful info without them installed. If needed, we ask
users to install them.
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