http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8033
--- Comment #56 from rankincj@yahoo.com 2007-10-07 19:44:34 --- (In reply to comment #52)
This has been turned into an issue of upgrading between releases, when the original request to remove the wineprefix had nothing to do with differences between releases or problems handling such an upgrade.
For the record, it looks as Wine is crashing for me because someone defined some new registry entries, and the code assumes that those entries are always going to be there. Given time, I can probably find the exact new keys in question. However, this now leaves me with a problem: how to update my registry while keeping all my settings and game state, because updating Wine by using "yum update" certainly doesn't touch the .reg files in the .wine directory. (It looks as if the app installed an entry in system.reg that told it where the CD was mounted, and then refused to run if this entry was not present. Adding this entry to a "fresh" wineprefix avoided the crash.)
So when you say "The bug is fixed/closed", you *really* mean that it is closed only for that small percentage of users who will install the app from scratch, and that everyone else can go hang.