Call to all packagers (especially Debian)

[Vitaliy Margolen]

It seems there is no end to how far will packagers go to brake Wine by
trying to make it better

I thought it's been fixed a long time ago, but it seems not. Wine
packages for Debian split important Wine parts into separate packages:
- wine - fonts, few not essential programs, symlinks and _premade_
  content of ~/.wine directory (with ~/.wine/c as default c: drive)!!!
- libwine - all the builtin dlls
- wine-utils:(explorer, winecfg, winepath, cmd.exe, iexplore, winedbg)
and many other packages. Also as default it's using "winelauncher"
instead of standard "wine" binary. That makes it that much more
complicated to troubleshoot any problems that users might have.

So in case anyone having problems with Debian or Debian based distro,
please check that all the "*wine*" packages installed. Also is there a
way we can request packagers to follow some standard to how they package
Wine?

Can we ask packagers to package all parts of Wine into one single
package? If they prefer, they can package optional sound drivers
separately (arts, esd, jack, nas). Same for documentation, and
development headers. However everything else is essential to Wine and
most programs that ran under it.

Also can packagers keep default method of starting Wine the same without
using any additional scripts for starting Wine?

And of course, if any alterations has been made, state so in the distro
specific readme file.


Of course I realize that this is open source and anyone can do whatever
they pleased. But please, that's make it more supportable. It's such a
huge PITA to waste several hours trying to find the reason why something
doesn't work to realize that person doesn't have explorer. Needless to
say that lots of things won't work right.

Vitaliy.