Bringing Wine into Main

[A. Walton]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

Patches to nautilus-autorun welcome ;).

(We'd love to support it when Wine is available and supporting the
disk makes since. [A Windows driver install disk would be silly to
support, for example.] We already have skeleton code in place for it,
but just needs some love).

-A. Walton

> Thanks,
> Scott Ritchie
>
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