http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23323
--- Comment #15 from Henri Verbeet hverbeet@gmail.com 2010-06-23 03:34:22 --- (In reply to comment #11)
Please keep your cool. Wine is in code freeze currently, and I talked with a couple of distro maintainers in order to get them to include henri's hack for wine-1.2 shipping. But yeah, for a couple of weeks, it's compiling will be necessary.
As others have already mentioned, there's a good reason that patch isn't in the tree, and including it in a distribution package would be a mistake.