On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 at 13:15, Julius Schwartzenberg julius.schwartzenberg@gmail.com wrote:
There seems to be a trend where applications are distributed with all their runtime dependencies bundled, libraries, compatibility layers, etc.
Also sometimes referred to as "vendoring". Please don't do that.
Provided the Ubuntu kernels will continue to support 32-bit executables, and provided there's interest in the Ubuntu community to continue running Wine, I imagine it should be possible for a bunch of people in the Ubuntu community to get together and provide 32-bit builds of the required packages as a PPA or something. Although hardly ideal, I don't think there's a reason such an approach wouldn't work. The much easier option of course would be for the affected users to switch to a distribution that cares about Wine, Debian perhaps being the most obvious choice.
Henri