Wine packages overly large

[Chris Halse Rogers]

Binary package hint: wine

The Ubuntu built wine packages are approximately 3 times the size of the winehq.org packages: wine_0.9.53-0ubuntu1_i386.deb (33.8 MiB) vs 11MiB wine_0.9.53~winehq0~ubuntu~7.10-1_i386.deb

This seems to be due to the failure to strip the debug symbols from the binaries, as attested to by the changelog entry:
wine (0.9.41-0ubuntu2) gutsy; urgency=low

  * debian/rules: ignore dh_strip errors to fix FTBFS in buildds

and the relevant build log output (from «http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11310862/buildlog_ubuntu-hardy-i386.wine_0.9.53-0ubuntu1_FULLYBUILT.txt.gz»:
# Fix FTBFS in buildds...
dh_strip
dh_strip debug symbol extraction: all non-arch-all packages for this build platform i386: wine wine-dev
dh_strip debug symbol extraction: packages to act on: wine wine-dev
dh_strip debug symbol extraction: ignored packages:
BFD: /build/buildd/wine-0.9.53/debian/wine-dbgsym/usr/lib/debug/./usr/bin/wine-kthread: section `.note.ABI-tag' can't be allocated in segment 2
objcopy: /build/buildd/wine-0.9.53/debian/wine-dbgsym/usr/lib/debug/./usr/bin/wine-kthread: Bad value
BFD: /build/buildd/wine-0.9.53/debian/wine-dbgsym/usr/lib/debug/./usr/bin/wine-kthread: section `.note.ABI-tag' can't be allocated in segment 2
objcopy: /build/buildd/wine-0.9.53/debian/wine-dbgsym/usr/lib/debug/./usr/bin/wine-kthread: Bad value
objcopy --only-keep-debug failed on /build/buildd/wine-0.9.53/debian/wine/usr/bin/wine-kthread
make: [binary-arch] Error 1 (ignored)

This may well be a bug in pkg-create-dbgsym. Building the Ubuntu source package in an environment without pkg-create-dbgsym results in a binary package of comparable size to the winehq packages.

[Cleber Santz (clebersantz)]

same here

$ winecfg
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

$ uname -a
Linux clbr 2.6.24-8-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 14 20:40:45 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

$ dpkg -l wine
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii wine 0.9.55-0ubuntu Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer (Binar

[Cleber Santz (clebersantz)]

Sorry, i posted in wrong but !

[Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz)]

Invoking "dh_strip -Xusr/bin/wine-kthread -Xusr/bin/wine-pthread" solves this issue.

[Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer)]

It's a bug in the dh_strip wrapper on our buildd...

i386 is not the fault, but amd64 is

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package wine - 0.9.56-0ubuntu1

---------------
wine (0.9.56-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #197588)
    - Proper handling of OpenGL/Direct3D windows with menu bars.
    - Stubs for all the d3dx9_xx dlls.
    - Several graphics optimizations.
    - Many installer fixes.
    - Improved MIME message support.
    - Lots of bug fixes.
  * debian/rules:
    - reset LDFLAGS to let wine not crash anymore, (LP: #191575)
      thx to Albert Damen <email address hidden> who came up with this solution.
      (http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-bugs/2007-July/062505.html)
    - adjust dh_strip call (LP: #185513)
  * debian/control:
    - remove gcc-3.4 build-dep
    - get rid of quilt
  * cleaned debian/patches
  * Add finnish translation to desktop files (LP: #196916)
  * dlls/winealsa.drv/waveinit.c: (LP: #195507)
    - let wine use the default alsa device
      (http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10942)
  * Preloader warning (preloader: Warning: failed to reserve range
    00000000-60000000) does not occure anymore (LP: #114025)

 -- Stephan Hermann <email address hidden> Fri, 22 Feb 2008 20:10:36 +0100