Bug#1053258: cdimage.debian.org: wine installation incomplete offline with only amd64 DVDs/BDs but without dropped i386 DVDs/BDs
Package: cdimage.debian.org
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I am maintaining some offline computers in my organization. I choose Debian because it provides a set of DVDs/BDs of nearly complete Debian software repositories, and can be used with USB sticks to maintain these offline computers.
I noticed that amd64 DVDs/BDs do not contain complete wine installation -- amd64 wine needs wine64 and wine32 to work, but wine32 is in i386 DVDs/BDs. I workaround this by downloading both amd64 and i386 DVDs/BDs. However, I found that Debian trixie has dropped DVDs, so this workaround will not work with trixie any more.
I know that I can download wine32 and its prereq packages manually, and copy these into offline computers using USB sticks. But it is frustrating as DVDs/BDs are no longer complete for offline usage.
So I wonder if Debian can keep wine packages complete in trixie amd64 DVDs/BDs. I think one of these methods can solve this:
1. let trixie amd64 DVDs/BDs contain wine32 and its prereqs.
2. build a small i386 DVD/BD which contains only wine32 and its prereqs.
3. completely drop wine in amd64 DVDs/BDs (disappointing).
3. write a wiki page about its workaround.
4. change wine packaging flavor from current multiarch to multilib again.
5. packaging wine using 'new wow64 mode', which does not need any i386 prereqs (only mingw-w64-i686), introduced in most recent wine.
Regards,
-- dfrg
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