DIB Engine : Almost 100% working

Henri Verbeet hverbeet at gmail.com
Mon May 11 16:17:42 CDT 2009


2009/5/11 Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org>:
> Henri Verbeet wrote:
>>
>> 2009/5/11 Joerg Mayer <jmayer at loplof.de>:
>>>
>>> As I think that Alexandre has stated his preference (and I can understand
>>> him taking a long term view), I want to ask the packagers for the distros
>>> out there: Would it be OK for you to add the necessary patch into the
>>> code that you distribute. Personally, that means Marcus and the openSUSE
>>> wine packages :-)
>>>
>> While distributions are of course free to do that, keep in mind that
>> that would also make them responsible for supporting that code. I'm
>> not sure how feasible that would be for something so close to core
>> Wine functionality.
>>
>>
>
> Distributions don't really "support" Wine anyway.  At best we just make a
> new package every now and again.
>
Yes, but the point is that bugs filed against such a package are
potentially invalid. (People should use git for filing bugs, but not
everyone does.)



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