Dear Wine Staging maintainers,
I would like to drop the Wine Staging patch that changes `wine foo.exe` to `/usr/bin/wine foo.exe` in the .desktop files that winemenubuilder creates.[1] I'm guessing that the wine-devel mailing list is the best forum is for discussing it because the patch has no associated Bugzilla report and merge requests are disabled in the wine-staging repository.
This patch isn't very useful in practice because most (if not all) Linux distributions have mutually exclusive packages for Wine and Wine Staging. From the package maintainer's perspective, not supporting the installation of multiple versions of Wine simultaneously makes a lot of sense because only one wineserver can run at a time. Moreover, we don't want to encourage the practice of installing multiple versions of Wine in order to get everything working. Instead, patches should be improved and merged into upstream Wine. Once the bugs are fixed upstream, the user should be free to switch from Wine Staging to mainline Wine without having to edit all of their .desktop files.
Also... The patch conflicts with the winemenubuilder protocol associations patch that I'd like to get into Wine Staging,[2] so dropping it means less work to get the other patch in ;-)
-Alex
[1] https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine-staging/-/blob/adda594159dcafc5dc8db8200... [2] https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/merge_requests/2740
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Alex Henrie