https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40363
Sebastian Lackner sebastian@fds-team.de changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |FIXED
--- Comment #5 from Sebastian Lackner sebastian@fds-team.de --- (In reply to Carter Young from comment #4)
I would like to install a more recent stable version, without the staging USE Flag. The issue is that from 1.8 on, at least in Gentoo, the staging USE Flag will be an option, meaning for every version we mark stable, a staging patchset WILL BE required, for example, 1.8.3 is marked stable, and the staging USE Flag is enabled.
I hope you agree that the whole problem is very Gentoo-specific. If wine-staging would be provided as a separate package (like on basically all other distributions), it would be trivial to provide it only for versions which are officially supported by the Wine Staging team. ;)
I've talked to NP-Hardass, and based on the fact that porting the 1.8 patchset to 1.8.1 is basically trivial, I've decided to push such a version to the Wine Staging repository. Users have to be aware though that such a version is neither good from a stability perspective (staging patches stay experimental), and also not from a staging perspective (because its outdated), so use at your own risk. ;)