[pkg-wine-party] Bug#720737: winetricks: Can't install python26 with wine-1.4.1

[Austin English]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:33 AM, Jari Aalto <jari.aalto at cante.net> wrote:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=720737
>
> Pierre Rudloff  wrote:
> | [winetricks author, Dan]
> | |
> | | I suggest the thing to do is to upgrade to wine-1.6.
> |
> | Unfortunately, Wine 1.7 does not seem to be available in Debian.
>
> * https://code.google.com/p/winetricks/issues/detail?id=347#c3
> | It's a regression between 1.4.0 and 1.4.1. There were 4 msi commits:
> |     msi: Deformat the description field of INSTALLMESSAGE_ACTIONDATA
> |     messages.
> |     msi: Fix deleting services on installation.
> |     msi: Perform a case insensitive match on filenames from cabinets.
> |     msi: Fixed MsiGetFileHashW for empty files.
> |
> | I didn't investigate further.
>
> As Pierre wrote, unfortunately there is only 1.4.1 available at the moment
> in Debian:
>
>    http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wine.html
>    [2012-10-13] wine 1.4.1-4 MIGRATED to testing (Britney)
>
> I've CC'd wine maintainer just in case.
>
> * https://code.google.com/p/winetricks/issues/detail?id=347#c2
> | I just reproduced this with [...cut... ; shell script]
> | with wine-1.4.1, but wine-1.7.0-223 worked fine.
> |
> | I suppose we could make winetricks warn in this case, but it'd have to be
> | a pretty approximate warning, since I don't know which wine version fixed
> | the problem.
>
> That'd be great. I think something like this would do:
>
>   ERROR: Install failed. This is probably a Wine problem.
>   ERROR: If possible, upgrade current wine and try again.

https://code.google.com/p/winetricks/source/detail?r=1053

"This installer is broken under wine-1.4.1. Please upgrade Wine. See
https://code.google.com/p/winetricks/issues/detail?id=347 for more
info."

-- 
-Austin