Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
We already have a topic "Wine Stable Considered Harmful" for the WineConf in September, see http://wiki.winehq.org/WineConf2015
"Considered Harmful" is also Considered Harmful ;) http://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
On a high level view this are IMHO the good and bad things about the current stable process in Wine:
Good Bad
Code freeze/stabilization Way too old Marketing Release slips with features slippage Some distributions want it Distributions insist on using it Bug reports for stable are ignored
The other good is that we can plan on shipping a stabilized (bug fixed, well tested) version of the package, rather than whichever version happened to be released at the time of the Debian freeze.
The whole point of having both stable and development versions of the package in Debian is so the user can have a choice. Either go with the stable, well tested version, or go with a snapshot from the date of the freeze.
Best wishes, Mike