[pkg-wine-party] Debian bugreport #793548 (wine: Unimplemented function OpenAL32.dll.alGenFilters)

Jens Reyer jre.winesim at gmail.com
Fri Nov 11 14:16:02 UTC 2016


On 13.09.2016 01:29, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Jens Reyer wrote:
>> I tried to test this, but unfortunately the Steam Store currently fails
>> for me. So to make sure that everything is ok I'd like to ask you to
>> test the game with wine-development 1.9.19-1 next week.
> 
> Hi Jens,
> 
> Please do not remove patches without actually testing.  This patch
> fixed more than just this specific bug, and wine-staging still carries
> it, so there is no reason to assume that it's somehow gone stale.

Hi Mike,

a bit late, but thanks for the feedback, also for the other patches.

It has now been confirmed that the specific application (Titan Souls
Demo) works without the patch. This is because Wine prefers the native
version since 1.7.53 (commit 7d6c602).

Furthermore upstream states in the closing message of the upstream
bugreport[1] that "Since Windows doesn't ship an openal.dll, there's
really no longer a need for Wine to have a built-in openal nor for
wine-staging to carry patches to it, but it's also doing no harm."

(Actually this was assumed already before, which was reason enough for
me to assume that dropping the patch is safe. But of course I totally
agree that *knowing* is better, and with the freeze coming nearer
knowing is definitely required by now.)

I suggest to drop the openal.patch from both wine-development and wine.

Greets
jre

[1] https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38972



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