Wine staging tree

[Rosanne DiMesio]

On Thu, 02 Oct 2014 12:51:19 +0200
Sebastian Lackner <sebastian at fds-team.de> wrote:

> 
> If you want a solution to find out if a version contains our patches: Just ask the users on the bug tracker to run "wine --patches".
> 
> > 

We shouldn't have to do that. 

Users have the right to install whatever they want on their computers, but they also have the right to be fully informed of the consequences of their decision. That single sentence on your web page is not adequate warning.  We've already had one invalid bug filed by a Fedora user who clearly didn't know he was using an unsupported build. 

The winepulse driver in the Ubuntu packages includes a console message explicitly telling users it is not supported by the Wine Project, and telling them where they should report problems with it. Your build should do something similar.

This goes beyond bugzilla. Users of patched versions of Wine also cannot file AppDB test reports or ask  for help on our forum. Please make that much clearer to your users.

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Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio at earthlink.net>