[pkg-wine-party] Bug#585409: Bug#585409: wine 1.2/1.3 on Debian: what's the blocker?

[Stephen Kitt]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 06:26:19PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> > Unfortunately we're so far behind now that even with one release a day it
> > would take a month and a half to catch up (10 remaining 1.1.x versions, 7 1.2
> > release candidates, 4 1.2.x versions and 34 1.3.x versions), not counting
> > updating wine-gecko, and the effort involved seems enormous to me - at least
> > I don't have the time and energy for that.
> 
> Couldn't this be greatly simplified if only the 1.2.x (stable)
> versions were uploaded?  I assume the plan is to release wheezy with
> one of the stable wine releases (either 1.2.x or 1.4.x if its ready in
> time); thus nothing really needs to be done with wine-unstable
> (especially since that is never going into a stable Debian release);
> let's just work on wine.

Yes, that makes sense to me. 1.2.x isn't much use for gaming on ATI
cards using the free drivers currently, but 1.4 should be out before
Wheezy.

Regards,

Stephen