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Re: Wine MinGW system libraries

From Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.devel
Subject Re: Wine MinGW system libraries
Date 2021-09-12 19:10 +0200
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On Sun, 12 Sep 2021 19:20:16 +0300, Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 05:31:41PM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> >...
> > While one could imagine adding support to all the appropriate
> > source packages to build similar “Architecture: all” packages, that would
> > require convincing all the relevant maintainers,  
> 
> Adding a new release architecture (partial or not) requires convincing 
> the ftp team and the release team.
> 
> It would also require many software changes.

Yes, it would. However, it requires convincing a well-defined set of people
*once*. If we handle Windows dependencies using “Architecture: all” packages,
we would either end up with something like Fedora’s MinGW-w64 SIG (with a
complete set of independent packages), or we would end up having to convince
a huge set of package maintainers over and over again.

> How would for example the dependencies of wine:amd64 be fulfilled?
> 
> Just supporting that package dependencies might only be fulfilled by 
> also using packages from a different architecture would require changes 
> in many places, like for example the testing migration scripts that 
> ensure installability after migration.

In the same way as the none-arch packages would be. Yes, it’s a lot of work,
but it’s useful for more than just Wine, and it can be done once for all the
interested architectures.

> > and it would end up tying the testing migrations to MinGW-w64...  
> 
> If this partial arch (and Wine) should be part of Debian releases,
> then testing migrations would have to be tied to it in any case.

True, I’d missed that. (In my mind I was comparing this with having separate
source packages.)

> >...
> > The buildd situation isn’t necessarily that much of an obstacle: it seems
> > to me we could have “Windows” buildds which are really Linux amd64
> > systems, that cross-build for Windows.  
> 
> The first obstacle is that if you want to be the first who does cross 
> building packages on the buildds, there is likely a lot of work and 
> bugfixing ahead for you for getting that working.

A lot of that work has already been done for http://crossqa.debian.net/

Fixing this would reduce the burden on all the maintainers who currently
handle cross-built packages in the archive, so overall I think it would be a
net win.

Regards,

Stephen

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  Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-05 09:20 +0200
    Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org> - 2021-09-05 18:30 +0200
    Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2021-09-12 10:00 +0200
      Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-12 15:40 +0200
        Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2021-09-12 16:10 +0200
          Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-12 16:20 +0200
            Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2021-09-12 16:40 +0200
              Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-12 17:20 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2021-09-12 17:30 +0200
            Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> - 2021-09-13 17:50 +0200
              Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org> - 2021-09-13 20:20 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de> - 2021-09-13 22:10 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2021-09-13 22:30 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-13 23:00 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2021-09-13 23:40 +0200
      Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org> - 2021-09-12 17:40 +0200
        Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2021-09-12 18:40 +0200
          Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org> - 2021-09-12 19:10 +0200
            Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2021-09-12 20:20 +0200
              Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org> - 2021-09-13 20:30 +0200
  Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org> - 2021-09-05 18:20 +0200
    Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2021-09-05 19:20 +0200
      Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org> - 2021-09-06 09:10 +0200
        Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-06 10:20 +0200
        Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2021-09-06 18:40 +0200
          Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-06 21:00 +0200
            Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2021-09-07 00:00 +0200
              Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-09-07 02:50 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries "Bastien Roucariès" <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-07 12:40 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2021-09-07 17:50 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-07 19:30 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-07 20:20 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2021-09-07 23:20 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-08 01:50 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-08 09:50 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2021-09-08 10:20 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2021-09-08 17:50 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-09-09 03:20 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2021-09-09 06:50 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-09-09 07:20 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2021-09-09 07:40 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-09-09 07:50 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2021-09-09 08:10 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-09-09 09:40 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-10 11:50 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-09-11 08:10 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-12 17:20 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2021-09-08 01:10 +0200
                Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-08 01:30 +0200
  Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2021-09-11 17:40 +0200
    Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com> - 2021-09-11 20:10 +0200
  Re: Wine MinGW system libraries Zebediah Figura <zfigura@codeweavers.com> - 2022-04-17 02:30 +0200

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