https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57092
--- Comment #2 from jepetersen@utexas.edu --- Bullseye was released in the Spring of 2022. What ever happened to LTS support? Almost all Wine users are Debian users. Nobody wants to have to install all those dependencies from source -- there are at least 50 of them, both amd64 and i386. Basically, you're telling me that Bullseye is useless for gaming, unless it's native linux. I find it hard to believe that Wine, a project that has been around for well over a decade just jumped from version 5.x to 9.x. Version number conventions don't tend to jump up so quickly, in my experience.
Perhaps I should rephrase my question, as I am sure I am not the only Debian user on the planet with similar issues. Would it be possible to get a 9.0 release in the Debian Bullseye repository, since Bullseye is a LTS release? Or, at least a workable version. I see in the Bullseye "backports" a 7.0 release. Maybe I'll try that one. I'm more married to Bullseye at the moment than you might think. Most people who work on extra large projects solo stick to the same LTS version long after LTS expires, in my experience.