On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Alexandre Julliard <julliard@winehq.org> wrote:

- We will start building and distributing binary packages for all
distros that don't have readily available packages. The packaging
scripts and control files will be maintained in git, so that people
can review them and submit improvements.

This is encouraging and I'd really like to talk a bit further about this. I've been shirking my packaging duties for a while and complaint mails are piling up.

For Ubuntu I think maintaining the PPA is the correct way forward and at this point it should be relatively easy to set up automated builds of both wine and wine-staging that produce a new packages whenever there is an upstream release tag.

If anyone wants to talk about consolidating this more please message me directly.