Bug 481248 (RFE:wine)

Please see https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2009-0510

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I know wine 1.1.12 is in testing right now. But there have been more releases of wine since then. Have those been tried to see if the problem is fixed?

Andreas, Wine 1.1.14 is released[1].

Wine updates are put out bi-weekly and have have been this way for years. I realize updating the Fedora RPM every two weeks may be asking for a lot, but if we could get /monthly/ updates into Fedora that would be better than the frequency we're getting now (bi-monthly usually). For a time I was compiling my own Wine RPM because it took many months to see a Fedora update.

[1] http://www.winehq.org/news/2009013001

I know that updates are pushed out every two weeks. E.g. see my scratch build for 1.1.14 [1] which was done one day after the release.

There are many things to consider when pushing wine updates:

 o Fixing existing bugs
 o Upgrading to new release, testing for new bugs
 o Preparing wine for the next big features

Currently I am really not happy with how I handle the existing bugs and I am trying to change this.

Currently ongoing is the preparation of new big features (aka 64bit wine) which takes some time.

I will push out 1.1.14. for F-{9,10} later today but with a package as big as wine (in terms of its user base) I like to see updates pushed via the carma mechanism and this usually takes some time.

[1] - https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=1096020

Ah, it seems scratch builds don't make it to the search results when you search for a package. I searched before posting my comment.

Please don't misunderstand me, I didn't want to sound harsh. I realize that Wine can easily break things that have been working for years.

I [mooninite] will be sure to pull wine from updates-testing and leave karma. Thanks.

Here we are again.

fedora-updates: 1.1.15 (Feb-13-2009)
fedora-updates-testing: 1.1.18 (Mar-27-2009)
Upstream: 1.1.21 (May-8-2009)

I noticed you built a F12 (rawhide) 1.1.21 package. Why not for F11 and F10?

1.1.18 has been in updates-testing for over a month. That's way too long.

Is Wine too hard of a package to keep up-to-date?

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Let's consolidate the wine update request bugs, shall we?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 491321 ***