Hi, I'd like to make jessie-backports of wine [1], next to my previous backports of wine-development [2]. (I hope that Stephen Kitt, who already sponsors the wine-development backports for me, is willing to do the same again for the wine backports-packages).
Background: There are 2 versions (source packages) of Wine in Debian: wine, which tracks the stable upstream releases, and wine-development, which tracks the development upstream releases. Upstream's last stable release was Wine 1.6 of 2013-07-18, last updated 2014-01-10. After these years of not making stable releases (but very heavy development resulting in 55 development releases), upstream decided this September to continue with yearly stable releases. They are currently preparing Wine 1.8 with weekly release candidates (currently 1.8~rc2) and expect 1.8 to happen in December. After that they will return to their bi-weekly development releases, while continuing to support the stable release (I guess with a release every few months, but AFAIK no real schedule exists). The future after Wine 1.8: I'd like to continue with jessie-backports of both wine (1.8.x) and wine-development (probably 1.9.x) as they arrive in Testing. Now that upstream returns to more frequent stable releases the need for backports of the later upcoming development packages 1.9.x might not be as big as for the previous 1.7.x development packages. But I still think they will be worth to be backported (each development release usually incorporates over 300 commits). Greets jre [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/wine [2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/wine-development _______________________________________________ pkg-wine-party mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-wine-party
