https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38926
--- Comment #24 from Michael Müller michael@fds-team.de --- We are currently working on it. Our idea was to restructure our current build system, so that it is not so much tied to our build server. We are splitting the software into several components which might be usable on its own. For example the scripts to automatically generate the packaging files for various distributions are now available in a separate repository. This allows users to generate the necessary files for their distro and compile the package on their own machines.
The changes should be finished soon and we definitely publish builds for 1.8-rc1 at some point during the next week. In fact the Ubuntu builds should already work, but there are still some tasks left for other distros.