[Bug 1558480] [NEW] remove wine1.6 package

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Wine 1.6.2 was released in October 2014.  The last upload from a Wine
Team [1] member was wine 1.6 1:1.6.2-0ubuntu6 on 2014-10-06.  There have
been subsequent uploads  by other Ubuntu Developers fixing bugs and
transitioning libraries.

The next stable releases from upstream were 1.8 in December 2015 and
1.8.1 in February 2016.

The Wine Team uploaded wine1.8 1:1.8.0-0ubuntu1 to their PPA [2] on
2015-12-24, but I haven't seen any activity since then.

In Debian, both wine [3] (currently at 1.8.1-2) and wine-development [4] (currently at 1.9.5-3) are maintained.
The  wine1.6, wine1.7 and wine1.8 packages build a 'wine' binary package which conflicts with the Debian wine package and so wine is currently on the sync blacklist [5]. Wine-development is currently in Ubuntu [6], syncs automatically, and is on 1.9.1-1 due to sync freeze.

I propose that wine1.6 be removed from the archive now, before the LTS release.
We can then look at migrating to the Debian packages.


[1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine
[2] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
[3] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/wine
[4] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/wine-development
[5] http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/sync-blacklist.txt
[6] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine-development

** Affects: wine1.6 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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remove wine1.6 package
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