Why the removal of old builds from WineHQ staging?

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wildtux
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Why the removal of old builds from WineHQ staging?

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I don't really get it.

No enough space on server hard drive?
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Re: Why the removal of old builds from WineHQ staging?

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Are you referring to the disappearance of the wine-builds.old directory from dl.winehq.org? Just a guess, but since they've been keeping old packages in the regular repositories since 2.4.x, maintaining a separate "old builds" repository does seem unnecessary.
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Re: Why the removal of old builds from WineHQ staging?

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I was talking about previous 2.4 versions.
There is still apps needing 1.9.x build to work better (mainly games).
Maybe it doesn't look as necessary from developers side, but from user's side, loose all older versions is maybe not so good.
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