[Bug 38926] WineHQ should build vanilla Wine binary packages of the biweekly releases for major distros

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https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38926

--- Comment #18 from Michael Müller <michael at fds-team.de> ---
We are currently using OBS for some of the distributions supported by Wine
Staging but we think about switching away. Although they support other
distributions than OpenSUSE, you clearly notice that OpenSUSE is the main
target.

For other distributions they only support stable versions, which is a big
problem for Debian. A lot of people are using Debian testing and you won't be
able to build packages for this. I haven't tried it myself, but I was told that
it is difficult to build Wine on Arch Linux using OBS. The usual approach to
get a WOW64 build is to build the 32 and 64 bit version on a 64 bit machine,
but OBS doesn't have the multiarch repo enabled and therefore you can't fetch
the 32 bit dependencies. I don't know if there is a way to workaround the
issue.

Moreover we already had multiple times the problem, that their mirrors were out
of sync. For example the repository database was already updated while the new
packages were not yet available. This makes it impossible to install packages.
Since OBS automatically redirects you to the fastest mirror, there is no
obvious way for people to try out other mirrors. I opened a bug report about
this a year ago without any answer.

There also other issues like the packages inside the VMs are not updated very
often and you run into version conflicts during package installation (at least
for non OpenSUSE distros). On our own build servers we therefore always update
the packages before building.

I don't know what would be the best way to build those packages, but it is
important to choose something which will work in the long run. It is hard to
change the repository url later.

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