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

[Antoine Beaupré]

On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:52:55 +0100, Hilko Bengen <bengen at 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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