Re: Wine
- From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:18:45 -0400
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:58:10PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote:
That is just plain ignorance on the part of the person who made that
According to Wine HQ, there are no packages for Debian, only Ubuntu
because the maintainer only runs Ubuntu. The packages are not
compatible with Debian because "Debian changed the package format",
which means you either need to compile the source or use the package on
one of the Debian mirrors, which is usually a bit behind the packages on
Wine HQ.
statement. The package format has not changed. It would be stupid for
Ubuntu to do something like that, since all package management tools
(apt, dpkg, etc) would need updating to deal with a new format.
Something makes me wonder if someone at wine has things backwards.The problem is more with dependencies than with anything else. As I
One of the things (as I stated a few weeks ago) that drove me away from
Ubuntu was the incompatibility of .deb files between Ubuntu and Debian.
I really would like to know who changed what because I see with
Ubuntu's gaining popularity, more developers are making Ubuntu .deb
files and not Debian .deb files and we're going to run into a .deb-hell
if it continues. Of course I am speaking of third-party repositories.
said, the format is the same. Complaining that an Ubuntu .deb package
doesn't work on Debian is like complaining that an Etch .deb doesn't
work on Sarge. Over time, as things diverge, it is more likely that
packages won't fit across branches. The same is true with Debian and
Ubuntu.
Now, it is really not hard to build package for both Ubuntu and Debian.
In fact, it is no harder than building packages for Sid and Sarge.
Tools like sbuild, pbuilder and chroot can be used to great advantage
here. I hear that there are some Debian developers whose primary/only
real platform is Ubuntu and that they package using pbuilder chroots.
Generally, this is considered bad practice for a Debian developer since
that means that the package received no testing on Debian, but it can be
done.
So, to sum it up, the reason that some upstream developers provide
Ubuntu but not Debian packages is because they either don't know about
tools like pbuilder or are just lazy.
Regards,
-Roberto
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