[Pkg-games-ubuntu] [Bug 859017] Re: PlayOnLinux 3.8 no longer supported

[Bertrand Marc]

Hi,

First of all I want to say how ridiculous and short minded it is to 
deliberately break all previous versions of PlayOnLinux, without 
thinking at least a sec about consequences in distributions. I mean, 
guys, you are not in beta anymore, what would you say if all firefox 
versions below 6 couldn't browse anymore ? All you'll earn is poor 
downstream reputation and probably a fork from a user who decided he had 
enough of this centralized architecture.

I am currently the Debian maintainer of the playonlinux package, so I 
prepared a package for 4.0.12 (trying to follow the 12 new versions 
published without notice). It is waiting for a sponsor to enter Debian. 
You are welcome to use it if you want to upload it to Ubuntu directly:
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/contrib/p/playonlinux/playonlinux_4.0.12-1.dsc

That said, I am not sure I'll keep being the Debian maintainer of 
playonlinux for long.

Bertrand

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Title:
  PlayOnLinux 3.8 no longer supported

Status in “playonlinux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Steps to reproduce:
  Install PlayOnLinux in any of the currently supported versions of Ubuntu Linux including the currently in beta 11.10. The version installed will be <= 3.8.X.

  Try to install any application trough PlayOnLinux. PlayOnLinux will
  return the message that PlayOnLinux version 4 and under are no longer
  supported and will stop there. The result being that PlayOnLinux on
  all currently supported releases of Ubuntu are utterly useless.

  Packages in atleast Ubuntu 11.10 must be updated to version 4.0 and
  above, otherwise the shipped version will be unusable.

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