On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:52:55 +0100, Hilko Bengen <ben...@debian.org> wrote: > * Antoine Beaupré: > > > It seems we are still without 1.2 in Debian. While I understand this > > is a difficult project, after reading through the history of this bug > > here, it seems to me that the package *may* ready to be uploaded... > > A few weeks ago, I took Ove's 1.1.35-1 package that I found at > <git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-wine/wine.git> and tried to build 1.2.3 > with it. Very few fixes were needed and there is only a small number of > issues that probably can be fixed in the packaging scripts.
Interesting. Also note that the Ubuntu packages work fine, and have frequent releases. > In my opinion, it would be best for users to get a package called "wine" > (not "wine-$version") into unstable as soon as possible. I don't care much. As long as there's a "wine" virtual package, people will find it. Ubuntu ships with wine-1.2 and wine-1.3. I could very well see the latter in experimental for example. > I can't imagine that users are interested in packages of upstream's > snapshot releases from 2 years ago. Indeed. Make that 3 years for 1.0. > > So what's the blocker here? Stephen - do you need a sponsor for this > > package? > > Since there are a few people who have been able to build their own > packages, perhaps it is time to turn packaging of Wine in Debian into a > real team effort. Honestly, I think we should just team up with the Ubuntu folks. They have done all the work for us already... http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=wine A. -- We should act only in such away that if everyone else acted as we do, we would accept the results. - Kant
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