Should build on Ubuntu to avoid being in multiverse

[shawnlandden]

Binary package hint: wine-gecko

wine-gecko is under a MPL1.1/GPL2+/LGPL2.1+ licence. It is free software. It only
recommends wine, which is also free software. It's sole purpose is to achieve
interoperability, and therefore is also subject to some additional legal
protections.

[shawnlandden (shawnlandden)]

Package: wine-gecko
Version: 0.1.0-0ubuntu1

[Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)]

wine-gecko is in multiverse because it doesn't actually build under Ubuntu as it requires visual studio; the source package just copies binaries onto the system. This is analogous to being in Debian's "contrib" section (free software with nonfree dependencies).

It would be nice, however, if it could build on Ubuntu natively using entirely free software (eg linking with winelib), which is why I'm marking this as a wishlist bug.

[jre (jre-phoenix)]

Debian builds wine-gecko from source, so this problem is generally solved. The packages libwine-gecko-X.YZ are in Debian main.

However unfortunately Debian is behind on packaging the releases of wine-gecko which are needed for current Wine versions. The main problem is updating the copyright, which is a huge task for this package.

Current wine builds have been requested
- for wine: https://bugs.debian.org/824192 (WineGecko 2.40 needs packaging for Wine 1.8)
- for wine-development https://bugs.debian.org/824193 (WineGecko 2.47 needs packaging for wine-development 1.9.13 and later)

Once the packages are updated in Debian they may simply get synced.