Aneurin Price <aneurin.pr...@gmail.com> writes: > Hi, > > I've just spent over an hour writing and rewriting this mail, and determined > that I can't think of a single constructive thing to say. > > So I'll just ask a couple of questions instead: > > Is there any way of preventing this kind of major breakage in the future? > I don't think many people expect that upgrading one package will FUBAR > the packaging system. > > Is there any chance of Wine becoming functional on amd64 in the forseeable > future?
# apt-get install ia32-wine Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: ia32-libwine ia32-libwine-alsa ia32-libwine-cms ia32-libwine-gl ia32-libwine-gphoto2 ia32-libwine-ldap ia32-libwine-print ia32-libwine-sane ia32-wine-bin ia32-wine-utils Suggested packages: wine-doc binfmt-support ttf-mscorefonts-installer winbind avscan klamav clamav Recommended packages: ttf-liberation The following NEW packages will be installed: ia32-libwine ia32-libwine-alsa ia32-libwine-cms ia32-libwine-gl ia32-libwine-gphoto2 ia32-libwine-ldap ia32-libwine-print ia32-libwine-sane ia32-wine ia32-wine-bin ia32-wine-utils 0 upgraded, 11 newly installed, 0 to remove and 187 not upgraded. Need to get 11.0MB of archives. After this operation, 51.4MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y ... % winemine Have fun. Works both with sid and experimental wine. Provided you have a lib32ncurses5 and lib32readline5 with the lib32 transition completed that is. Bug the respective maintainers for that one. > Did anyone who isn't on crack get to see 'ia32-apt-get.preinst' and > 'ia32-apt-get.postinst' before they were perpetrated upon an unsuspecting > populace? Reading them in the process of trying to unfuck my system made me > feel more than slightly ill. Since my package was sponsored I would assume at least one other person looked over it. You are the first to mention illness. I can't change what it does. But do you have suggestion to improve how it does things in preinst/postinst/postrm? Latest source is on svn.debian.org pkg-ia32-libs: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-ia32-libs/trunk/ia32-libs-tools/#_trunk_ia32-libs-tools_ > -Nye MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
