Wine staging 3.3 release

[Alistair Leslie-Hughes]

Hi,

I would like to thank everyone's for there support during this
transition of wine-staging to new maintainers.

We have decided for the first few releases to have the packages
published to the following repository.
https://repos.wine-staging.com/alesliehughes/

Once people give this a workout and confirm that it's still working.
I'll get it moved and it we become an official staging release.

This is not permanent situation and once the new staging team has
successfully released a few times.  We'll push directly as a
wine-staging release.

Please bear with us during this changeover period. The last thing we
want, is to break wine-staging on systems where it's currently working.

Summary of the past few weeks
* Rebased to current wine 3.3 (Over 1000 patches are applied to wine
vanilla)
* Associated more patches to wine bug.
* Reviewed and upstreamed patches.

Where can you help
* Run Steam/Battle.net.
* Try you favorite game WOW/Diablo 3/Overwatch/Need for Speed to name a few.
* Test your favorite applicaions.
* Steal staging patches and get the accepted upstream.

As always, if you find a bug, please report it via
https://bugs.winehq.com

Best Regards
 Alistair.

[Marcus Meissner]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 07:32:39AM +0000, Alistair Leslie-Hughes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to thank everyone's for there support during this
> transition of wine-staging to new maintainers.
>
> We have decided for the first few releases to have the packages
> published to the following repository.
> https://repos.wine-staging.com/alesliehughes/
>
> Once people give this a workout and confirm that it's still working.
> I'll get it moved and it we become an official staging release.
>
> This is not permanent situation and once the new staging team has
> successfully released a few times.  We'll push directly as a
> wine-staging release.
>
> Please bear with us during this changeover period. The last thing we
> want, is to break wine-staging on systems where it's currently working.
>
> Summary of the past few weeks
> - Rebased to current wine 3.3 (Over 1000 patches are applied to wine
>
> vanilla)
> - Associated more patches to wine bug.
> - Reviewed and upstreamed patches.
>
> Where can you help
> - Run Steam/Battle.net.
> - Try you favorite game WOW/Diablo 3/Overwatch/Need for Speed to name a few.
> - Test your favorite applicaions.
> - Steal staging patches and get the accepted upstream.

Thanks for reestablishing staging!

openSUSE and SUSE builds are also available, in the openSUSE buildservice
same as before ;)

Ciao, Marcus

[Rosanne DiMesio]

On Tue, 6 Mar 2018 07:32:39 +0000
Alistair Leslie-Hughes  wrote:
> We have decided for the first few releases to have the packages
> published to the following repository.
> https://repos.wine-staging.com/alesliehughes/
>
> Once people give this a workout and confirm that it's still working.
> I'll get it moved and it we become an official staging release.

I've added a note about the experimental staging 3.3 package to the top of the Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and Mageia wiki pages, and to the forum "Status of Wine-staging" announcement. I prefer to wait until packages are on dl.winehq.org  before re-enabling the staging checkbox in the AppDB.

Regarding the Fedora packages, I see you built packages for Fedora 24, 25, and 26. Fedora 24 & 25 are both EOL and should not have packages, and Fedora 27 has been out for 4 months and should. (https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44155).