On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 9:09 AM Jens Reyer <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm sorry to say: I retire from being active for Wine and Debian.
>
> It's mainly because the focus of my life shifted to other things.  Maybe
> that'll change again some time and I'll come back, but please don't plan
> with that in mind.  I'll be available for any questions and will try to
> help anyone with taking over.
>

Sorry to see you go! Thanks for your work on this over the years.

* Build dependencies
> A few years ago we only had to make sure that unicode-data and
> khronos-api were packaged in the correct version.  Nowadays there is an
> increasing number of wine-specific build-dependencies like faudio, vkd3d
> and more.  Also upstream changed how it builds DLLs towards PE.  I never
> had a look on what that specifically means. Probably this helps with
> distros retiring their 32-bit archs, and may change how we build Wine:
> also build 32-bit Wine on 64-bit (?). I suggest to emphasize on building
> current Wine versions, even if this means that no
>

FYI, the main motivation for the PE switch is to fix some DRM schemes
(i.e., https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21232 et al).
-- 
-Austin
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