[pkg-wine-party] Bug#585409: Possibility of getting an up-to-date version of Wine into Squeeze

[Stephen Kitt]

Dear release team,

I know what the answer ought to be at this stage, but I thought I'd ask
anyway; is there any chance whatsoever that, should updated packages of Wine
be ready soon (and satisfy the usual quality requirements), they could be
accepted into Squeeze?

The version of Wine Squeeze is going to ship with (1.0.1) is nearly two years
old and for many users its use is greatly limited. The recently released
stable version, 1.2, has vastly improved support for a large number of
applications and games. I have prepared packages in the same style as the
current maintainer's, and a few people have tested them. I haven't had much
reaction from Ove but I do know he is aware of their existence; I haven't
consulted him regarding this particular request.

The changelog for my packages is as follows:

wine (1.2-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
  
  [ Stephen Kitt ]

  * Non-maintainer upload.
  * New upstream version. Closes: #585409, #589773.
    - winebrowser correctly passes URLs via DDE. Closes: #491186.
  * Include ptrace speedup to avoid lag in Steamworks-based games.
  * Now that stable has debhelper 7, use it:
    - use dh_lintian;
    - add ${misc:Depends};
    - drop dh_desktop.
  * Install new utilities into libwine-bin:
    - attrib.exe;
    - mshta.exe;
    - ngen.exe;
    - ping.exe;
    - sc.exe.
  * Install new French and German translations of winemaker.1 into
    libwine-dev.
  * Install new NLS file into libwine.
  * Remove obsolete build dependencies (dependencies no longer present in
    stable). Closes: #578975.
  * Switch to 3.0 (quilt) source format and split existing patches.
  * Build on kfreebsd (thanks Tuco!). Closes: #591837.
  
  [ Ove Kaaven ]
  
  * Install function_grep.pl into libwine-dev, in /usr/share/wine, and
    modify winedump accordingly. Closes: #555645.
  * Replace @SUFFIX@ with current suffix in preprocessed maintainer
    scripts.
  * Add proper package suffixes to the installed reportbug control files.
  * Use "wine-safe start /unix" as the MIME handler for the
    application/x-msdos-program type.

 -- Stephen Kitt <steve at sk2.org>  Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:14 +0200


I realise this request utterly flies in the face of the "minimal changes"
requirement, I'm not even the maintainer of the package, and Wine doesn't
have any RC-bug filed against it; hence my initial comment. I'm at least
hoping I won't waste too much of anyone's time...

Regards,

Stephen