2009/3/2 Pauli Nieminen suokkos@gmail.com:
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org wrote: Time based stable releases that are coming about once in a year could be good idea. Making stable release should be a lot easier with passing and improving test suit. If that is considered too invasive branching could happen when the candidate for stable branch goes to RC.
Time-based stable releases aren't suitable for Wine. We need bug targets for stable to be meaningful
Another way to make everyone happy with "unstable" would be mark every 12th wine release as stable and just branching it for bug fixing. Then bug fix release could be 1.1.12.X.
12 wine releases is 6 months. This would mean 2 stable releases each year and a LOT of extra work, especially considering the release candidate stages and code freeze.
Re the automagic sources.list file:
Why not just make separate package for installing the source file. It could be named as wine-installer. Then post-install hook can download and install the real wine package.
This sort of thing has been suggested already, and I would prefer to go this way IF we were to do it at all, but other people have objected to another package.