Wine staging 4.3 release

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Mon Mar 4 15:33:47 CST 2019


On Sun, Mar 3, 2019, 19:49 Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 07:14:41 +0000
> Alistair Leslie-Hughes <leslie_alistair at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > NOTE:
> > All FAudio patches has been reverted due to the lack of official package
> > support.
> > This will allow games that require XAudio2 support to still run.
> >
> IMO, that is neither necessary nor advisable. The FAudio dependency will
> not affect the stable branch until 5.0, and I expect that by then distros
> will have added FAudio packages to their latest release. Until then, the
> WineHQ packages are designed to allow installing all three branches at the
> same time, so users can use the stable branch for games that need it while
> still having the development and/or staging branches available for testing.
>
>
> --
> Rosanne DiMesio
> dimesio at earthlink.net


I don't see how staging reverting a patch early in the release process
affects stable. After all, staging isn't meant to be stable..(and I suspect
it will be restored when distros catch up).

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