Den 11. sep. 2011 13:44, skrev Cesare Leonardi: > Upstream is 1.2.3 (stable) and 1.3.28 (development) and they looks like > quite active releasing new versions.
Of course. > In Debian we have two Wine packages: > - wine 1.0.1 (1.1.24 in experimental) > - wine-unstable 1.1.35 It's slightly newer now, but not new enough yet. > Looking from sourceforge: > - 1.0.1 was released on 2008-10-17 > - 1.1.35 was released on 2009-12-18 > > In the past, the more detailed informations i've found regarding the > Wine delay were this: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557783 > But now it's seem superceded. Because of the work and time needed for compliance with Debian's strict DFSG requirements (in addition to having to package a full mingw toolchain to compile it, upstream's Gecko package had to undergo a repackaging for DFSG compliance, plus a complete license audit; no small task, many thanks to Stephen Kitt for doing that), this issue was only resolved like a month ago. Not in time for me to have enough summer hacking time left to do a lot of updates. > I'm really confused. > Why doesn't Kay packages can't be the official Debian packages? I suspect he always meant it to be temporary - letting users have *something*, even if the packages may not be perfect and may not even have been allowed into Debian at the time. He hasn't offered to be a comaintainer. > What's the problem behind Wine: technical, time, license? With the license issues recently resolved, it's mostly time now. The packaging still needs some revisions in order to become multiarch-compatible. I have plans to make the wine packages use the alternatives system more extensively, both for handling Wine's 64-bit support and for making wine and wine-unstable coinstallable. All this takes time, which I haven't had much of the last couple of weeks. I hope to have more time in October (and I really hope to have it before next Debian release, at least...) For the time being, you may have to stick with Kai's stuff, I suppose. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e6cb018.5000...@arcticnet.no
