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Re: Jessie-backports of wine



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Le Mon, 30 Nov 2015 16:30:01 +0100,
Jens Reyer <jre.winesim@gmail.com> a écrit :

> 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
> 


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