Package: wine Version: 0.9.31-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: wontfix Please do NOT provide win64 support for lenny.
This is a rather unorthodox request. Rather than requesting a new feature, I'm requesting that you don't provide it. In the assumption that you will agree with me, I'm using the "wontfix" tag to indicate that. There's an extensive explanation on why providing win64 support too early can benefit Microsoft and prevent the free software community from reclaiming the desktop market (for us it's a market too, although we are paid in manpower rather than money) during the upcoming 64-bit transition. See: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/world-domination/world-domination-201.html This paragraph is most significant: "[...] The two most important features of Wine 1.0 have to be that [..] it does not emulate Windows-64, its direct competitor! If that second "feature" seems odd, heed the lesson of OS/2. That operating system bundled a Windows emulator that worked sufficiently well for independent software vendors to ignore native OS/2 support. Vendors wrote for Windows, trusting that the emulator would cover their OS/2 customers.[28] As a result, OS/2 was starved of even the Macintosh's also-ran level of native application support, and eventually withered on the vine. This is not the fate we want for [GNU/]Linux." OTOH, I suppose providing win64 for lenny+1 should be fine, since I don't expect lenny+1 to be out before the deadline (end of 2008). After this deadline, if we have lost the 64-bit battle (i.e. if Microsoft is still alive and we're still starving), then we'll really need win64 for the upcoming long and tiresome war. P.S: Anyway, our users won't find any need for win64 untill win64-only applications start to appear, and this is currently blocked by Microsoft inability to provide usable 64-bit systems. So we can easily live without that.. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64 Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages wine depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.11 Debian configuration management sy ii libwine 0.9.31-1 Windows API Implementation (Librar ii xbase-clients 1:7.1.ds1-2 miscellaneous X clients Versions of packages wine recommends: pn msttcorefonts <none> (no description available) ii wine-utils 0.9.31-1 Windows API Implementation (Utilit -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
