Wine(tricks) needs a new maintainer

[Austin English]

Thanks for the bug and quick reply Bryan. I've subscribed to the bug.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Bryan Quigley
<bryan.quigley at canonical.com> wrote:
> Debian's wintricks package doesn't work that well right now on 64-bit with
> wine 1.9xx, either.
>
> Anyway I did make a Merge/Sync request so we can track this in a bug:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/winetricks/+bug/1574681
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Bryan Quigley <bryan.quigley at canonical.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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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-Austin