Am 01.11.25 um 19:44 schrieb Michael Gilbert:
control: tag -1 moreinfo
I do not use gecko myself, looking for info about what is going on
from those that have interest in it.
Best wishes,
Mike
Hello Mike,
I am not sure, but I think this issue is not about
gecko not working after it got installed manually,
it is more about users
- don't get asked to have wine download gecko itself (how it behaves with
upstream wine) or
- get told to how to install gecko manually somehow.
I guess disabling of the download of gecko got into the Debian package with [1].
Maybe it would be acceptable to change this patch to
get the dialog back without the download,
but show the user some informations, or a link to the
Debian wiki, with some further instructions how to react to
the "Could not find Wine Gecko" console message, which some
users may not notice when not running from a console.
The bug [2] may be related, as it seems this made the wine package
look for the gecko install package locally again.
It is just users need to know they need to put those packages there.
Kind regards,
Bernhard
[1]
https://salsa.debian.org/wine-team/wine/-/blob/debian/10.0_repack-11/debian/patches/disable/addons-download.patch?ref_type=tags
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812750
