On 06/17/2015 12:05 PM, Caron Wills wrote:
The hard messaging I see about Wine-Staging is on this page:
"Fedora for example ditched their regular Wine version and replaced it with Wine Staging."
In the threads about Wine-Staging on wine-devel, it's apparent that the Fedora team was discouraged from doing this but on the Wine-Staging landing page it feels more like a selling point. I understand the importance of stating the above in a positive way but I wonder if this statement isn't a little over the top.
Their statement is indeed flamboyant and it is not entirely accurate. This is the first time I have seen it. Fedora applied wine-staging to be able to use "pipelight", which allows users to view Netflix (a video streaming service). I was initially against it, but Andreas decided it was worth adding. I'm CC'ing Sebastian to update their page.
We ship users' bug reports off to wine-staging before they make it here.
Thanks, Michael Fedora Maintainer