WineHQ Downloads page needs a disclaimer

[Scott Ritchie]

Relatedly, if I can automate it, I'd be willing to provide a wine-vanilla
package repo.

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 3:05 AM, Henri Verbeet <hverbeet at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4 November 2014 15:52, Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > A good example of why: https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36964#c15
> >
> > Our Downloads page doesn't directly say that the binary packages listed
> are officially endorsed, but it does give that impression: only a few
> distros are listed, the very top of the page says "Supported Wine" in big
> letters, and while the 3rd Party Tools section explicitly says those aren't
> supported, the Binary Downloads section gives no such warning. Users who
> assume that the packages listed on that page have the "WineHQ seal of
> approval" aren't being unreasonable.
> >
> > This isn't just an issue with the Fedora packges. The Ubuntu packages
> with winepulse and changes to dsound have long been a problem (plus
> https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34299), and the CentOS/RHEL 7
> packages are 64 bit only. I have stickies on the forum about all these
> things, but not everyone comes through the forum.
> >
> > The Downloads page needs to make it much clearer to users that the
> distro packages listed are not "official" WineHQ packages. The wording
> could be something like "Binary packages are built and maintained by the
> distros, and may contain patches that are not supported here. The links
> below are provided solely as a convenience to users and do not represent an
> endorsement."
> >
> > (Posting here because that's what I've been told to do for such issues.)
> >
> I'd be inclined to agree, but the best way to actually make it happen
> would be to send a patch against the website.
> (git://source.winehq.org/git/website.git,
> templates/en/download.template, etc.)
>
>
>
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