Dear Cesare, dear Ove, Ove Kåven schrieb am 11.09.2011 14:56: > Den 11. sep. 2011 13:44, skrev Cesare Leonardi: >> In the recent past upstream site started to advertise this as Wine Debian >> package: http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/ I had nothing to do with that, I actually wasn't even informed in advance and just started to notice a lot more traffic on my site from one day to the other. >> These are deb package that upgrades wine-unstable and that you have to >> install with dpkg. In these days i've tested them and seem to work well. >> The person that make them is Kai Wasserbäch, a Debian developer. I know, that many, including some DDs, want me to provide a APT archive, but I'm not really happy with that, as it might encourage people to use third party packages without a second thought (like: Can I trust the provider?) >> I'm really confused. Why doesn't Kay packages can't be the official Debian >> packages? > > I suspect he always meant it to be temporary - letting users have > *something*, even if the packages may not be perfect and may not even have > been allowed into Debian at the time. This. (It actually served as a place where I could make the builds, I used for filing bugs, available to upstream; then it was named by winehq.org as the primary source for Debian.) You might even read that on my page (e.g. [0] or [1]) too. Though, of course, my blog is not mandatory reading. ;) > He hasn't offered to be a comaintainer. TBH I never intended to maintain Wine, though I'm doing this now, to some extent, anyway. ;) I used Wine and, when I reported upstream bugs to upstream, was asked to try the latest Git or release with some patches applied. Thus I needed to build them and also make the builds available to the upstream devs. (@Ove: I've already a multiarch-ready branch on my system which uses a significantly simplified debian/rules. If you are interested in that, let me know and I put it up somewhere.) Kind regards, Kai Wasserbäch [0] <http://www.carbon-project.org/On_the_unofficial_wine_unstable_packages_on_dev_carbon_project_org.html> [1] <http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/> -- E-Mail: curan@debian.org IRC: Curan Jabber: drizzt@debianforum.de URL: http://wiki.debian.org/C%C3%B9ran GnuPG: 0xE1DE59D2 0600 96CE F3C8 E733 E5B6 1587 A309 D76C E1DE 59D2
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