Since I see Wine 1.4 has been released, I would like to get discussion going on this topic again.
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:18:22 Stephen Kitt wrote: > > I'm not sure it's worth trying to continue packaging every single version > at this stage; as I see it the sensible thing to do would be to package > the various Wine 1.2 releases (I've done the packaging work already, and > all the releases are similar), then move to version 1.4, which involves: > * packaging wine-gecko 1.1 (because that's the latest version we can build > with the tools currently available in the Debian archives) > * packaging Wine 1.3.13, 1.3.14 or 1.3.15 (because those are the only > versions still using wine-gecko 1.1 while also providing the tools > required to package later versions of wine-gecko) > * packaging wine-gecko 1.4 (which also needs some updates to mingw-w64, > which I'll take care of) > * packaging Wine 1.4. > I think this is a very good idea. I've managed to get rid of most lintian warnings on the 1.1.37 package, but I feel a little bit like I'm wasting my time if you've already packaged the 1.2 series.. you also seem to have a much better handle than I do on what's required to catch up to upstream. > Ove had plans to improve the Wine packaging but as far as I know no one > else but him knows the details. > Ove, please let us know what your plans are to improve packaging. > I've started work on the two wine-gecko packages, but I probably won't have > time to do much on them before the end of March. wine-gecko 1.1 doesn't > need much, it only needs a couple of patches from the 1.0 package to build > with current mingw-w64 so the main obstacle is the usual licensing review. > wine-gecko 1.4 is a bit more complicated. I haven't started looking at all > the changes required for the Wine packages. What exactly does the licensing review involve? I would be happy to assist! -- Regards, Scott. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org