| Summary: | app-emulation/winetricks stable request | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Roman Žilka <roman.zilka> |
| Component: | [OLD] Keywording and Stabilization | Assignee: | Wine Maintainers <wine> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | CC: | kripton |
| Priority: | Normal | Keywords: | STABLEREQ |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
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Description
Roman Žilka
2013-01-24 11:53:51 UTC
winetricks is a difficult candidate for stabilization. It's a script for downloading various windows dlls; the urls and file signatures for downloading those dlls change often, and have to be constantly adjusted in upstream subversion. A stable winetricks version thus quickly grows obsolete and useless. This, by the way, is why winetricks upstream does not make versioned releases, but simply tells users to use the latest svn checkout (in Gentoo we approximate that by taking a snapshot of the latest winetricks svn revision whenever a new wine version is released). So we would be forced to file new stabilization requests for winetricks ebuilds every 2-3 weeks, and at any point in time stable users will still be left with a few dlls that they can't download... I understand the script changes often, but you could then make each version stable after, say, 1 week after its introduction into the tree. And just ignore all stabilisation requests. If that's not a policy you want to follow, I accept the decision and the bug can be closed. |
