Re: Wine(tricks) needs a new maintainer

2016-04-25 Thread Austin English
Thanks for the bug and quick reply Bryan. I've subscribed to the bug. On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Bryan Quigley wrote: > Debian's wintricks package doesn't work that well right now on 64-bit with > wine 1.9xx, either. > > Anyway I did make a Merge/Sync request

Re: Wine(tricks) needs a new maintainer

2016-04-25 Thread Bryan Quigley
Debian's wintricks package doesn't work that well right now on 64-bit with wine 1.9xx, either. Anyway I did make a Merge/Sync request so we can track this in a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/winetricks/+bug/1574681 Thanks, Bryan On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Bryan Quigley

Re: Wine(tricks) needs a new maintainer

2016-04-25 Thread Bryan Quigley
I can relate, winetricks wasn't working for me in the archive, eventually figured out I should just download it. Debian has 20151116, so just dropping our delta might be a good option too. I'm hoping to be able to drop our Wine delta too (stuck on 1.6 - more complicated transition though) and

Re: Wine(tricks) needs a new maintainer

2016-04-25 Thread Daniel Holbach
Hello Austin, On 25.04.2016 09:12, Austin English wrote: > So, I'd like to know what the process is for having a maintainer removed > from a package, so that someone else can maintain it. If not, I'd prefer > to see Winetricks removed from Ubuntu, as currently it's more broken > than useful. I'd

Wine(tricks) needs a new maintainer

2016-04-25 Thread Austin English
Howdy all, I'm the upstream maintainer of Winetricks [1], a script used by Wine users to work around wine bugs, as well as a Wine developer. The reason I'm writing is that the version in Ubuntu is over two years old, and for a project that involves downloading files from live internet links,