http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30410
--- Comment #32 from Scott Ritchie scott@open-vote.org 2012-06-28 17:01:02 CDT --- I pushed another update today that uses a different version of the patch (Kees' instead of Erik's), let me know if it fixes things. According to Kees, it should be the same as simply doing the echo 1|sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope trick.
I'm currently building it for 1.4.1 and will be pushing that to the PPA as well this evening.