http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17397
--- Comment #8 from William Waghorn willw@litany.me.uk 2009-03-16 19:56:25 --- Patches get applied to the source, then you compile your own special version of wine from this patched source. Easiest way to do this is to use 'git' to obtain and manage Wine's source.
Unfortunately, my patch no longer works with wine-1.1.17. I was wondering why my patch wasn't accepted - looks like I've approached the problem from the wrong end.