Packaging related changes

[Rosanne DiMesio]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 00:05:51 +0200
Michael Müller <michael at fds-team.de> wrote:

Great news!

> 
> We already added the new Ubuntu repository to the CDN, so that users can
> start switching by now and don't have to wait till the next release. 

I'm running into the CDN sync issue; http://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ doesn't show a directory for Ubuntu, but http://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu does exist.

> 
> To make sure that all users will be informed about this change, I will
> push at least one additional update (Wine 2.5) to the PPA that displays
> a warning during the package upgrade containing the necessary
> instructions 

We should also post a notice on the forum. I can take care of that. 

> 
> Wine Stable is now available as package
> ---------------------------------------
> 

A lot of users will be happy about that.

> 
> Added / removed distros
> -----------------------
> 
> The following distros have been removed as they are no longer supported
> or reach their EOL within the next month:
> 	* Ubuntu Precise
> 	* Fedora 23
> 	* Mageia 4
> 

Fedora 22 is also EOL. 

> 
> Nevertheless, we believe that these changes are very
> useful and will make things much easier in the long term.
> 

I agree. Thanks!

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Rosanne DiMesio
dimesio at earthlink.net