http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15419
--- Comment #9 from Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com 2008-12-19 11:15:47 --- (In reply to comment #6)
I think you're misunderstanding the reason for this bug report.
The purpose isn't to make life easier for tester - it's to make life easier for our users.
Understandable.
Anybody tester can use the last unstable version, there's no feat there. Providing useful information for our users means we also provide test data for the version they're using, which for 99% of them will be one of the stable versions, since distributions only offer stable releases in their repositories.
No. Your metric are highly skewed. Many users are building from source or from unofficial/semiofficial repositories, with unstable wine.
I'm not trying to be pompous or off putting. The source is there if someone wants to patch it to always include 1.0.1. I just don't think that's a worthy goal, as it would encourage people to stick to stable, and never test unstable. When a new stable is released, and their app is broken, they'll be surprised, but how could it have been fixed if a bug was never filed. The first thing we do when a bug is filed on 1.0.1 is ask them to upgrade to unstable...