Moving Forward in Ubuntu (Wine, Debian and Universe)

Remy Maucherat remy.maucherat at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 04:14:59 CST 2005


On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 01:28:18 -0800, Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org> wrote:\
> That sounds like a great idea.  The main issue with Debian was that they
> really didn't HAVE a policy or decision-making authority for what to do
> when a maintainer isn't making the best product possible, preferring
> instead to defer to the maintainer's desires regardless of pesky things
> like user complaints, lingering bugs, or unmet release schedules.
> 
> Frankly, I think one of these days we may want to consider moving Wine
> into the supported section.  It's certainly an application users would
> like to work easily and functionally, and I'd like to help move us
> there.

That's just my personal opinion, but while I think Wine is a great
project, I have the feeling it will never be polished enough to be
considered "supported" software.

Rémy



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