https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40134
Bug ID: 40134 Summary: WineHQ repositories for Ubuntu and Debian have only the latest development/staging release Product: Packaging Version: unspecified Hardware: x86 OS: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: wine-packages Assignee: wine-bugs@winehq.org Reporter: dimesio@earthlink.net CC: michael@fds-team.de, sebastian@fds-team.de Distribution: ---
The Fedora, Mageia, and Mac OS X repositories contain all packages that have been built by WineHQ so far, and in the case of Fedora and Mageia, even have packages for 1.8.1 (though they are inexplicably labeled "development"). The Ubuntu and Debian repositories, however, only contain the latest development and staging releases.
Why this matters: users who encounter a regression when they upgrade Wine need to be able to revert to the old version until the problem is fixed. Keeping old packages available makes this very easy, and since using the development or staging release then becomes relatively risk-free, more users are likely to be willing to test those versions. More users testing every release benefits the project as a whole.
As for the stable release, while it's true our Downloads page only promises development and staging packages, since we are apparently providing stable packages for some distros, they should be provided for all.