[pkg-wine-party] Bug#585409: #585409: wine/wine-unstable NMUs; #479659: RFH: wine
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> Hi Hilko and Michael,
>
> First, many thanks for your work towards more recent wine packages in
> Debian: I definitely hope that this work will allow Wheezy to benefit
> from wine 1.4 (and wine 1.5.3 as wine-unstable ?).
Yes, that's the goal :)
> That said, I think that the current pace (and content, FWIW) of the NMUs
> is fine but aren't really clear in terms of intent: are you interested
> in just pushing NMUs out as one-shots (and hence letting the current
> maintainers handle the responsibility of the resulting packages) to just
> have newer wine versions available or are you interested in becoming
> (co-)maintainers of wine (and wine-unstable FWIW). In that latter case,
> this intent should IMHO be clearly stated in the #479659 RFH bug
> (including links to packaging effort and NMU changes) as that would make
> the situation much more clear to outsiders just reading the bugreports.
I am interested in continuing to help with the package. However, Ove
seems to not be willing to accept potential new maintainers as there
is the possibility that they may do something in a way that he
wouldn't.
So, anyway, there was discussion on -devel and on this list about that
recently, which should be required reading. Given the current state,
NMUs seem to be the only viable option.
> Le 24.04.2012 15:23, Hilko Bengen a écrit :
>> Should we build and upload a wine-gecko package or should the
>> dependency in the wine package be modified?
>
> If I read [wG] correctly, wine 1.2 needs wine-gecko 1.0.0, which is
> already packaged as wine-gecko-unstable, so for 1.2, I'd just go with a
> symlink.
>
> [wG] http://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko
>
> wine 1.4 would need wine-gecko 1.4 which would IMHO preferably be
> maintained as the wine-gecko package, allowing the "normal" and
> "-unstable" suites to stay unentangled. (The packaging for wine-gecko
> should of course be inspired by the one for wine-gecko-unstable.) Do you
> need help in that domain?
Stephen Kitt is already preparing those:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/steve-guest/wine-gecko.git
>From what I understand the license review that he needs to go through
is pretty significant, so you could help him with that.
Best wishes,
Mike
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