http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33549
André Pirard A.Pirard@ulg.ac.be changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|CLOSED |UNCONFIRMED Resolution|INVALID |
--- Comment #8 from André Pirard A.Pirard@ulg.ac.be 2013-05-14 07:30:52 CDT --- In summary, your reply is incorrect because this bug is not about modifying a repository but modifying the instructions, as I explained, so that it can be used. Please note that using an incorrect installation method was the reason for bug 30883 and that I'm trying to avoid that people that do not open bugs meet that problem repeatedly. Read on.
Yes I had noticed that bug 30883 has been closed. You did not notice that my word "actively" for a one year old bug is obviously humor.
Apparently, you did not notice in bug 30883 that the sentence"... https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ppa is correct on the Ubuntu download page" is not (or no longer) true. That page does not contain that URL at all but "ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa" which is correct for Ubuntu but incorrect for Mint and that is my point. Hence, whichever way, the sentence "bug 30883 has also been closed as invalid for the same reason as this one" is incorrect.
Apparently, you didn't notice the sentence on the download page: Ubuntu and Ubuntu derivatives (such as Kubuntu) obtain software from packages which are stored in repositories. Ubuntu's default repository includes Wine, however if you want to stay up to date with the latest Wine package you can use WineHQ's by following these instructions.
Hence the rest of the download page deals with "WineHQ's" repository, and my point is about that repository and it is nonsense to "repeatedly" tell me to contact Ubuntu about it instead of WineHQ. Ubuntu's repository is working perfectly well. The issue is that if a Mint user who "wants to stay up to date with the latest Wine package" follows your instructions instead of what I suggest, he will never see the contents of "WineHQ's" repository. Presently (you may want to make that test): he sees 1.4-0ubuntu4.1 instead of 1.4.1-0ubuntu1~precise1~ppa4. Changing the repository instead of changing the instructions is an alternative but I'm not really keen on that.
You may want instead to state that you don't support Mint if you continue to insist. I don't like that at all for the sake of Wine, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
This will be my last message because it's much easier to make the installation instructions correct for Mint than writing all this.