----- On Jun 22, 2019, at 1:12 PM, dimesio dimesio@earthlink.net wrote:
On Sat, 22 Jun 2019 14:34:47 +0430 Henri Verbeet hverbeet@gmail.com wrote:
Provided the Ubuntu kernels will continue to support 32-bit executables, and provided there's interest in the Ubuntu community to continue running Wine, I imagine it should be possible for a bunch of people in the Ubuntu community to get together and provide 32-bit builds of the required packages as a PPA or something. Although hardly ideal, I don't think there's a reason such an approach wouldn't work.
I can't use PPAs to satisfy build dependencies on the OBS. Packages have to either be in the Ubuntu standard, update, or universe repositories, or on the OBS itself. The latter is what we're doing for FAudio. That works fine, other than the whining from Ubuntu users about the tremendous difficulty of copying and pasting the command to add another repository. So if Ubuntu users do decide to go the PPA route, they should also plan on building their own Wine packages.
Since most Launchpad PPA´s provide the needed orig.tar.xz files, along with .dsc and -debian.tar.xz, it is not impossible to re-build those packages on the OBS for use as a dependency. It is not there the work lies i guess.
Dunno if *buntu maintaners plan on creating any wine-release on Launchpad at all, but if they do, it is not really impossible to maintain OBS as a kind of "backup" of Launchpad to use for -devel and -staging.
Will be interesting to see how this is solved on Launchpad, cos dependencies is a hornets nest on top of a anthill, and once main repo´s start dropping deps it´s a huge undertaking to unwind.
Sveinar
The much easier option of course would be for the affected users to switch to a distribution that cares about Wine, Debian perhaps being the most obvious choice.
Other than the part about Debian being the obvious choice, that's basically what our forum sticky for CentOS/RHEL/Scientific Linux 7 users has been saying for 5 years.
-- Rosanne DiMesio dimesio@earthlink.net