[Bug 40134] 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

--- Comment #3 from Michael Müller <michael at fds-team.de> ---
(In reply to Rosanne DiMesio from comment #2)
> As far as Launchpad is concerned, I don't understand why you're using it in
> the first place. The old Ubuntu Wine PPA is not only still available, when
> you google "ubuntu wine ppa" that repository is the first result. Because of
> that, we have users who mistake that for the "official" repository and end
> up on the forum asking why their package manager keeps telling them some old
> version of Wine is the latest available. From a user support standpoint, I
> would MUCH prefer everything to be on dl.winehq.org.

There are several good reasons to use Launchpad. Ubuntu users know PPAs and
they rarely have to deal with debian style repositories. There are a few
exceptions since Launchpad doesn't allow proprietary software, if you don't pay
for a commercial subscription. I can't remember ever having to add a debian
style repository for open source software during the time I used Ubuntu. Why do
you think users google for "ubuntu wine ppa" if this is not the case? I also
don't see how this should ever return dl.winehq.org as search result which is
obviously no launchpad PPA.

Besides this, there are also some technical reasons. There are currently 5
Ubuntu versions supported by Launchpad. In order to build packages, we need a
32 and 64 bit VM for each of these versions. This means we need to maintain 10
additional build VMs. Further more they publish a new version every 6 months,
so this is a lot of additional work, while Launchpad does this just fine.

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