Wine(tricks) needs a new maintainer

[Bryan Quigley]

I can relate, winetricks wasn't working for me in the archive,
eventually figured out I should just download it.

Debian has 20151116, so just dropping our delta might be a good option too.

I'm hoping to be able to drop our Wine delta too (stuck on 1.6 - more
complicated transition though) and winetricks might be something worth
looking at first.

Kind regards,
Bryan


On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:35 AM, Daniel Holbach
<daniel.holbach at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Hello Austin,
>
> On 25.04.2016 09:12, Austin English wrote:
>> So, I'd like to know what the process is for having a maintainer removed
>> from a package, so that someone else can maintain it. If not, I'd prefer
>> to see Winetricks removed from Ubuntu, as currently it's more broken
>> than useful. I'd say Wine should probably also be removed if it's not
>> going to be maintained, but that's my personal opinion as it's not been
>> discussed upstream.
>
> we have no maintainer lock in Ubuntu. So we either need to find somebody
> who's willing to get updated packages into Ubuntu via the sponsorship
> process:
>
>  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SponsorshipProcess
>
>
> The other option would be to remove the packages altogether, but if wine
> upstream already provides packages, they could maybe be put into Ubuntu
> using the process mentioned above?
>
> Have a great day,
>  Daniel
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