ubuntu-wine PPA version stuck at 1.7.38

[Doofus]

Hi,

For Ubuntu Utopic (14.10) and Vivid (15.04), the ubuntu-wine PPA version of Wine is currently stuck at 1.7.38. However version 1.7.44 is available for Trusty (14.04).

Just wondering, will the Wine versions for Ubuntu 14.10 & 15.04 ever be updated? Are there likely to be any adverse effects if I add the trusty repository for ubuntu-wine to my 14.10 system, in order to get 1.7.44?

[grendal74]

Hi,

For Ubuntu Utopic (14.10) and Vivid (15.04), the ubuntu-wine PPA version of Wine is currently stuck at 1.7.38. However version 1.7.44 is available for Trusty (14.04).

Just wondering, will the Wine versions for Ubuntu 14.10 & 15.04 ever be updated? Are there likely to be any adverse effects if I add the trusty repository for ubuntu-wine to my 14.10 system, in order to get 1.7.44?

This is free software. It is up to ubuntu to update to the latest version. You don't have much to lose if you update, it will either update or report errors. The problem is that if you do update with the Trusty ppa, you may get stuck there and not be able to update the system if you don't go back to the utopic version.
Best thing to do is to update to Vivid and later update to 16.04 LTS.

[Doofus]

I don't see how updating my OS would help here.

But I uninstalled Wine and added the Trusty (14.04) ubuntu-wine PPA. Installed Wine from there and it seems to be working fine so far.

[lahmbi5678]

Hi,

it seems the Ubuntu guys prefer wine-staging aka pipelight, for which there's an up-to-date ppa. The (at least some) core wine devs are not amused, they don't want experimental bug fixes and possibly immature code, which might break other applications. On the other hand I can understand people, who prefer wine-staging, as it actually fixes some issues and is almost as stable as wine.

The situation somehow reminds me to ffmpeg/libav, where some developers wanted more experimental code and bug fixes, which the maintainer absolutely refused, his attitude led to forking the project. This probably won't happen with wine, the wine-staging guys don't want a fork, they e.g. just want to show, that some maybe imperfect code might work in practice and therefore should be included in wine.

kind regards,

[grendal74]

Hi,

it seems the Ubuntu guys prefer wine-staging aka pipelight, for which there's an up-to-date ppa. The (at least some) core wine devs are not amused, they don't want experimental bug fixes and possibly immature code, which might break other applications. On the other hand I can understand people, who prefer wine-staging, as it actually fixes some issues and is almost as stable as wine.

The situation somehow reminds me to ffmpeg/libav, where some developers wanted more experimental code and bug fixes, which the maintainer absolutely refused, his attitude led to forking the project. This probably won't happen with wine, the wine-staging guys don't want a fork, they e.g. just want to show, that some maybe imperfect code might work in practice and therefore should be included in wine.

kind regards,

It is more in the hands of the maintainer IMHO