Slow to have WineHq-Stable

[Colin Law]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2020 at 13:12, Grizzly via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All
>
> I've been keeping one of  my Ubuntu boxies updated with WineHq Dev releases, as
> soon as WineHQ posted that a 5.0rc (1 thru 6) was ready it was there on
>
> 'https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu/ bionic main'
>
> but now 5.0 stable is released there is no sign of it
>
> apt-cache policy winehq-stab returns 4.03 as the latest
> is there a reason ?

Yes, Ubuntu releases don't normally get version upgrades to packages,
only serious bug fixes.  That is so that users don't suddenly find
that something doesn't work any more or works in a different way.
Likely it will be in Ubuntu 20.04

Colin