[Bug 43436] Would it be possible to add Mageia 6 back to the Install page?

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43436

Michael Müller <michael at fds-team.de> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Product|Wine-staging                |Packaging
            Version|2.13                        |unspecified
          Component|-unknown                    |wine-packages

--- Comment #1 from Michael Müller <michael at fds-team.de> ---
The packaging files are not the reason why we stopped supporting Mageia. Their
repository tools are causing the problems, otherwise everything would be ready
to go.

On our build server, the packages are builtin inside of a Mageia VM and then
copied to the host system, which signs the files and adds them to a repository.
The problem is that the host system is running Debian and that the tool to
create such repositories (genhdlist2) doesn't seem to play well with anything
else than Mageia. I was unable to find a working combination of genhdlist2,
URPM and librpm that works on Debian without any warnings or errors. The script
also looks up files in the system to determine the Mageia version which then
leads to differences in the created repository format. This will obviously not
work on Debian and we therefore came to the conclusion that we can not ensure
that the created repository is valid and stopped providing packages. Not to
mention that Mageia also applied quite some patches on librpm and we would most
probably need a second librpm version (one for Fedora and one for Mageia).

Mageia is the first distribution that caused such problems and it seems like
nobody thought about the possibility that such tools might also be used on
other systems. We do not really want to maintain our own forks of these
libraries and it would be great if Mageia could make their packaging tools more
compatible.

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