[pkg-wine-party] [wine] 02/02: Activate Wine as interpreter for Windows executables in wine-binfmt.

Jens Reyer jreyer-guest at moszumanska.debian.org
Tue Jan 30 19:29:16 UTC 2018 

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commit 17e9c2a28ad0f5fd16ef46c81d7e5302385fd64f
Author: Jens Reyer <jre.winesim at gmail.com>
Date:   Sun Jan 21 20:28:51 2018 +0100

    Activate Wine as interpreter for Windows executables in wine-binfmt.
    
    Closes: #819255
---
 debian/NEWS                 | 16 ++++++++++
 debian/README.debian        | 71 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
 debian/control.in           | 14 +++++++--
 debian/wine-binfmt.postinst | 13 +++++++++
 debian/wine-binfmt.prerm    | 13 +++++++++
 5 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS
index d632c989b..d8b9e37 100644
--- a/debian/NEWS
+++ b/debian/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+wine (3.0-2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  The package wine-binfmt (not part of a standard Wine installation) will now
+  automatically register Wine as interpreter for Windows executables.  This
+  causes Wine to be invoked automatically whenever a matching file is executed.
+  (Previously wine-binfmt only installed support for this, but you still needed
+  to activate it manually.)
+
+  Warning: This increases the risk of inadvertently launching Windows malware,
+  so please make sure that you understand the security risks before installing
+  this package.
+
+  For more information please refer to Wine's README.debian.
+
+ -- Jens Reyer <jre.winesim at gmail.com>  Sun, 28 Jan 2018 18:51:42 +0100
+
 wine-development (1.9.16-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   Debian has two sets of Wine packages: wine and wine-development. They now use
diff --git a/debian/README.debian b/debian/README.debian
index a4a093c..15f650a 100644
--- a/debian/README.debian
+++ b/debian/README.debian
@@ -175,42 +175,55 @@ make sure that you understand the security risks before blindly setting this
 up.
 
 
-You can directly launch Windows executables from the command line if they have
-the executable bit set, and if they are either in PATH or you specify the path
-to them.
-
-To configure backend support for that, you'll need to execute:
-$ sudo apt install wine-binfmt
-$ sudo update-binfmts --import wine
-
-To remove this backend support again execute:
-$ sudo update-binfmts --package wine --remove wine /usr/bin/wine
-
-
-You can also make Wine known to your desktop environment.  Then you may for
-example in a filebrowser double-click on Windows executables to start them, or
-right-click on them to "Open With Wine Windows Programs Loader".
-
-Wine does this automatically for most file types supported by your installed
-Windows applications.  However this is disabled for basic ones in Debian, both
-for security reasons and to avoid unwanted associations with Wine while a
-preferred native application exists.
-
-To enable system-wide support for .exe files execute the following command
-(replace /usr/share/doc/wine with /usr/share/doc/wine-development if you use
-wine-development):
+System integration (binfmt)
+---------------------------
+If you install the package wine-binfmt Wine gets registered as interpreter for
+Windows executables.  So instead of executing "wine foo.exe" you may just use
+"./foo.exe".  Windows executables (including malware) might get auto-started
+this way, even as root.  For this to work, the executable has to be on PATH (or
+its path must be specified), and the executable mode bit must be set.
+
+This feature is probably most interesting for automatic software testing.
+Desktop users probably don't need it, so don't install wine-binfmt, unless you
+know that you need it.
+
+
+Desktop integration
+-------------------
+To make Wine known to your desktop environment you can install a wine.desktop
+file.  Then you may e.g. double-click on Windows executables in a filebrowser
+to start them, or right-click on them to "Open With Wine Windows Programs
+Loader".
+
+Enable system-wide:
 $ sudo cp /usr/share/doc/wine/examples/wine.desktop /usr/share/applications/
+or
+$ sudo cp /usr/share/doc/wine-development/examples/wine.desktop /usr/share/applications/
 
-To support this only for your current user execute:
+Enable only for your current user:
 $ cp /usr/share/doc/wine/examples/wine.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
 
-To remove these native file type associations again execute the following
-commands:
+Remove:
 $ sudo rm -f /usr/share/applications/wine.desktop
 $ sudo update-desktop-database
 $ rm -f ~/.local/share/applications/wine.desktop
-$ rm -f ~/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-*
 $ update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications/
 
-The Wine FAQ has further information about this topic.
 
+Opening files with Windows applications (MIME)
+----------------------------------------------
+Some applications register for opening files of a specified type.  Generally
+these associations are propagated to your Linux desktop, so that you can
+directly open files with the matching Windows application.  However it is
+disabled for some common file types to avoid unwanted associations with
+general purpose Windows applications, while a preferred native application
+exists (e.g. it prevents .txt files from being opened with Wine's notepad
+instead of your system's preferred editor).
+
+To remove all these file type associations:
+
+$ rm -rf ~/.local/share/applications/wine/
+$ rm -f ~/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-*
+$ update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications/
+
+The Wine FAQ has further information on this topic.
diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index fa0bf57..efe199e 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -300,11 +300,21 @@ Breaks:
  wine1.6 (<< 1:1.8.4ubuntu1~),
 Replaces:
  wine1.6 (<< 1:1.8.4ubuntu1~),
-Description: Windows API implementation - binfmt support
+Description: Activate Wine as interpreter for Windows executables 
  Wine is a free MS-Windows API implementation.
  This is still a work in progress and many applications may still not work.
  .
- This package provides support for launching Windows executables directly.
+ This package registers Wine as interpreter for Windows executables, using
+ the kernel binfmt_misc module.  This causes Wine to be invoked automatically
+ whenever a matching file is executed.
+ .
+ WARNING:  This increases the risk of inadvertently launching Windows
+ malware, so please make sure that you understand the security risks before
+ blindly installing this package.
+ .
+ This feature is probably most interesting for automatic software testing.
+ Desktop users usually don't need it, so don't install wine-binfmt unless you
+ know that you need it.  Refer to Wine's README.debian for more information.
 
 Package: fonts-wine
 Section: fonts
diff --git a/debian/wine-binfmt.postinst b/debian/wine-binfmt.postinst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9d8ea71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/wine-binfmt.postinst
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+case "$1" in
+    configure)
+        update-binfmts --import wine
+        ;;
+esac
+
+#DEBHELPER#
+
+exit 0
diff --git a/debian/wine-binfmt.prerm b/debian/wine-binfmt.prerm
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1722468
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/wine-binfmt.prerm
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+case "$1" in
+    remove|deconfigure)
+        update-binfmts --package wine --remove wine /usr/bin/wine
+        ;;
+esac
+
+#DEBHELPER#
+
+exit 0

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