[Bug 40363] New: Wine Stabilization - Gentoo Slow to Adopt With Valid Reason

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40363

Bug ID: 40363
           Summary: Wine Stabilization - Gentoo Slow to Adopt With Valid
                    Reason
           Product: Wine-staging
           Version: 1.8.1
          Hardware: x86-64
               URL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578202
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: -unknown
          Assignee: [e-mail]
          Reporter: [e-mail]
                CC: [e-mail], [e-mail],
                    [e-mail]
      Distribution: Gentoo

I opened the bug that I'm asking you to comment on.  I opened this bug because
Gentoo's Stable version is still at 1.6.2.  I use an old RPG, Istaria which is
blocky in 1.9.5, and Eve Online, which is unplayable in my case using 1.6.2.
In order to properly regression test where my issues are coming from, I thought
I would start at finding out why Gentoo's stable version lagged behind WineHQ's
stable version.  Our package maintainer is doing the best he can, as our
distribution is source based, and he is perfectly within his right not to use a
custom patchset (See Comment 3).

Comment 7 in my bug states:

Let's keep this open with the info from NP-Hardass so that anybody else who
seeks for 1.8.1 knows.

I'm closing #578272 as I see no point of having it open. NP-Hardass stated he
wants to bump and stabilize 1.8.x, so it's on upstream now.

Thanks for your interest Carter, maybe try to convince upstream to get it going
;)

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Bug 578272 was implemented as a tracker, but the commenter is correct in
assuming that the issue lies upstream.  I present Snippets from Comment 3:

I'd prefer that our stable wine 1.8 use the official gstreamer 1.0 patchset,
but upstream never released that under the 1.8 branch.  Once again though, I'd
rather not be hosting a custom patchset for stable. There is currently a
request to the upstream wine stable maintainer to include this in 1.8.2.

1.8.1 was never bumped because Wine Staging never released a patchset for 1.8.1
and I'd rather not have a stable candidate in package.use.stable.mask and not
have staging support.  I'd also rather not have to host a custom staging patch
just for 1.8.1.  I've cc'd the Staging devs in case they'd like to weigh in on
making an official release for 1.8.1.

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