https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41632
--- Comment #16 from tygu@getnada.com --- I've seen the pages you guys mentioned but those don't cover patching and building on Debian. I brought it up here b/c I figured it was a documentation defect. The Debian-specific docs go as far as configuring apt/sources.list and getting the keys, but the docs stop there, and the Debian package is apparently missing the patching script. Are Debian users expected to abandon the "debian way" at some point in the process? I'll figure it out, but a debian developer might want to cover building the debian way.
Regarding the English readme -- I see why I missed it. The ".gz" lines up with the language tags on the other files, so when quickly reading down the list it looks like a language abbreviated as "gz". Perhaps that file should have a ".en.gz" extension.