Moving Forward in Ubuntu (Wine, Debian and Universe)

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Sat Mar 12 12:25:10 CST 2005


On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 01:28:18AM -0800, Scott Ritchie 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.

I'd very much like to see WINE move into supported, and perhaps even
integrate it more closely with the desktop to ease the transition for users
coming from Windows.

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 - mdz



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