[ubuntu-uk] Wine bug - new package?

[Tony Pursell]

There is a ppa for up-to-date Wine versions, if you can enable it in Mint.

https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ubuntu/ppa

Tony

On 25 March 2015 at 11:03, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertising at gmx.com> wrote:

> On 25/03/15 10:44, Colin Law wrote:
>
>  Can you provide more details of the "package containing the fix".  Is
>> that a specific version of wine or what?
>> Also the link to the relevant bugs might be useful.
>>
>
> It's a long time since it was fixed.   I reported the bug at:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine1.6/+bug/1414995 and it did
> have a duplicate: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine1.6/+bug/
> 1383214  The fix was actually an upstream fix to one of the gnu
> components in wine.  The Ubuntu bug that I reported was marked as fixed
> more than a month ago.
>
> The problem is still there in the version of wine that is in the current
> package in 15.04, and 14.10.  There is no package that contains the fix in
> the Ubuntu repo.  Mint uses an earlier Ubuntu package, which is why I am
> able to work with it.  I think the problem began in 14.10.
>
> Regards,                Barry.
>
> --
> http://barrydrake.co.nr/
>
> --
> ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20150325/8c7de37a/attachment.html>