[Wine] Ubuntu repo versus WINE

[Frédéric Delanoy]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 09:55, dusf <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
> On installing Xubuntu 11.04 yesterday I installed WINE via synaptic, selecting the package 'wine' manually which seems to have then installed 'wine1.2' and then some other packages.
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> [Image: http://oi51.tinypic.com/s4za78.jpg ]
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> I was going to add the WINE repo to upgrade to 1.3 when I saw the package already exists in synaptic.
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> My question is why doesn't Ubuntu use 1.3 which is there

Because wine1.2 is the stable release

>, and if I manually select and install it is there any reason to add the WINE repo when I am only interested in stable releases for mainly playing World of Warcraft?[/img]

Because stable release doesn't run all applications perfectly;  1.3
series provides (more recent) development versions/snapshots, but some
app working in 1.3.x may not work anymore in 1.3.(x+1) [hence the
development part, or alpha if you prefer].
If the apps you use work in 1.2.x keep that version, since newer 1.2.x
won't add invasive potentially app-breaking changes, while 1.3.x may