Continuing usage of libwine 1.0.1

[Fabian Greffrath]

Hi all,

Am 20.01.2010 07:25, schrieb Reinhard Tartler:
>   b) ask the wine maintainers to work on updating the outdated wine
>      package in testing

It seems they are preparing to replace wine in sid with the 
development releases, at least in the long term:
<http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/wine/news/20090809T095221Z.html>

> No, and we'd probably wouldn't have neither the ressources nor
> infrastructure to maintain donations, I think. What you could do,
> however, is to talk to our DPL (leader at debian.org) about making a
> earmarked donation to Debian for pkg-multimedia purposes.

Very good idea. As a positive side effect this would direct the DPL's 
attention a bit more towards multimedia-related concerns, maybe.

> Ultimatively, I think so, yes. However, we could always need more
> manpower in form of package review and testing. Feel free to subscribe
> to our mailing lists and share your opinion on our patches and packages.

As long as we have to face patent-related pseudo issues with some 
multimedia codecs we will never be able to *completely* replace all of 
the multimedia-focussed distros out there. But we want to come as 
close as possible to this goal, yes.

Cheers,
Fabian


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