Bringing Wine into Main

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Tue Dec 16 22:28:21 UTC 2008


Odysseus Flappington wrote:
> 2008/12/15 Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org <mailto:scott at open-vote.org>>
> 
>     (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote:
>     > Olá Scott e a todos.
>     >
>     > On Monday 15 December 2008 10:22:58 Scott Ritchie wrote:
>     >> Most of Wine's dependencies are already in main, but on amd64
>     Wine still requires
>     >> ia32-libs for about 15 packages that don't have separate lib32
>     versions.
>     >
>     > Thanks Scott for your HARD work with wine.
>     > Do you have any idea when bug 298611 can be fixed?
>     > Right now, on jaunty, wine (and all other apps depending on ia32)
>     aint working (but the fix mention there does help).
>     >
>     > Thanks once again.
>     >
>     >
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ia32-libs/+bug/298611/+addcomment
>     >
> 
>     I'm aware of it - all that's really needed is a few lines in ia32-libs
>     followed by a rebuild of that, then a rebuild of Wine.  I've subscribed
>     pitti because he normally does these things for me.
> 
>     Thanks,
>     Scott Ritchie
> 
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> 
> Not sure if this is relevant to wine going into main, but I have to
> admit, I find it very frustrating in Intrepid that whenever i stick in a
> cd with an autorun or windows executable, it comes up with an autorun
> dialog which i have to cancel and which i would never have used since im
> using crossover linux or cedega anyway.
> 
> Alex

More worrisome is the fact that if you try and use that dialog it will
just error out entirely rather than opening it with Wine.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie




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