AppDB: Bug #49999 - It should be possible to submit results for all versions of the current stable branch

[Joerg Schiermeier]

Hi list!

According to Austins recommendation to discuss the following bug in
Wine-devel I want to do exactly this:

it's about:
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49999

The original bug reporter (elk_aide at e-mail-address-shortened) wrotes:

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Lots of Linux Distributions and FreeBSD only ship the stable releases
of wine in their repositories. They often stick to the first minor
release (In Debian and FreeBSD this currently is 5.0 for example).

I think it should be possible to submit tests with the distribution's
own most recent wine package, as that probably is the main way wine is
aquired.

Therefore the AppDB list should include the "outdated" minor releases
of the current stable branch for selection aswell. This is currently
not the case (only 5.0.2 is available for selection currently).
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In my point of view this is not the problem of the wine authors. The
maintainer of a distro will have to maintain the (stable) wine packages
he/she supervises and should always provide the latest stable version
of wine.
So there is no need to open this door in the AppDB formula.
Consequently I recommended to flag this bug as "wont fix".

Austin (English) disagrees and reopens the bug and suggest this
discussion thread.

So please, write, what you think about this point!

(And please excuse also my bad English ...:).

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Kind regards
Joerg Schiermeier
Bielefeld/Germany