[Bug 40134] New: WineHQ repositories for Ubuntu and Debian have only the latest development/staging release

[wine-bugs at winehq.org]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40134

            Bug ID: 40134
           Summary: WineHQ repositories for Ubuntu and Debian have only
                    the latest development/staging release
           Product: Packaging
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: x86
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: wine-packages
          Assignee: wine-bugs at winehq.org
          Reporter: dimesio at earthlink.net
                CC: michael at fds-team.de, sebastian at fds-team.de
      Distribution: ---

The Fedora, Mageia, and Mac OS X repositories contain all packages that have
been built by WineHQ so far, and in the case of Fedora and Mageia, even have
packages for 1.8.1 (though they are inexplicably labeled "development"). The
Ubuntu and Debian repositories, however, only contain the latest development
and staging releases. 

Why this matters: users who encounter a regression when they upgrade Wine need
to be able to revert to the old version until the problem is fixed. Keeping old
packages available makes this very easy, and since using the development or
staging release then becomes relatively risk-free, more users are likely to be
willing to test those versions. More users testing every release benefits the
project as a whole.

As for the stable release, while it's true our Downloads page only promises
development and staging packages, since we are apparently providing stable
packages for some distros, they should be provided for all.

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