Am Montag, 23. Juli 2007 18:09 schrieb Christian Pradelli:
Should we maybe provide updates for previous wine versions in the case of serious regressions like this one?
I think that yes. This kind of bugs are very difficult to detect, so may be some people upgrade to a newer version because some graphical fix and they don't know that they are using a version with a dangerous bug that can corrupt data. Doing this it will be easy to test and find the optimal version to run a software.
No, it will not really help. Those updates for previous wine versions can contain regressions too.
Remember, Wine is still beta software. Releases are snapshots. Unless we have a declared stable release there is no point in providing unstable updates for old unstable releases.
Of course anyone is free to maintain a few older wine versions, for the reasons stating above, and he is welcome to do so. However, I don't think we should spoil any existing resources on that.