https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40134
--- Comment #4 from Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net --- (In reply to Michael Müller from comment #3)
(In reply to Rosanne DiMesio from comment #2)
I also don't see how this should ever return dl.winehq.org as search result which is obviously no launchpad PPA.
I don't expect it to. What I would prefer is a URL that makes it perfectly clear which repository is the official WineHQ one. "dl.winehq.org" does that; "https://launchpad.net/~wine/+archive/ubuntu/wine-builds" doesn't.
Besides this, there are also some technical reasons.
I figured that, which is why I never brought it up before. Dealing with the confusion over the PPAs is a minor annoyance. But if Launchpad is truly the only reason we don't have old packages available for Ubuntu users, I consider that a significant problem.
That brings me back to my question about creating an archive here, which you haven't commented on. Scott did maintain a package archives for old Ubuntu Wine packages at http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/archive/binary/, so I think Ubuntu users are already perfectly capable of downloading and installing packages from outside Launchpad.