Hi Ubuntu developers Wine has been maintained separately from Debian in Ubuntu since forever, and almost single-handedly by Scott Richie (thanks!).
Sadly, the Wine packages in Ubuntu have recently fallen behind, and nobody stepped up to fill Scott's shoes. Earlier this year, I filed a bug [1] which ended up being used to discuss the situation and various possible solutions. During DebConf16, I met Jens Reyer of Debian's Wine Team and we came up with a plan to transition to the Wine packages from Debian, providing a smooth upgrade path and avoiding the epoch bump. After 18.04 we would be able to drop the delta between the Debian and Ubuntu packages. We plan to upload to Yakkety the wine source package from Debian with additional breaks and replaces and a few other minor packaging changes. We would also upload a replacement for the wine1.6 source package consisting of transitional packages that conflict with the old Ubuntu packages and depend on the new packages from Debian. The packages are currently available for testing from Jens' PPA [2]. Unfortunately, we will lose some of the desktop integration features that Scott worked on, as these do not fit in with the Debian Wine Team's current plans and some are seen as security risks. However, we will benefit from the up-to-date packages and the reduced maintenance overhead by adopting the Debian packages. Please send comments to the aforementioned bug [1]. Regards Graham [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine1.6/+bug/1558480 [2] https://launchpad.net/~jre-phoenix/+archive/ubuntu/transition+wine1.6+wine/ -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
