Slow to have WineHq-Stable

[Grizzly]

24 January 2020  at 15:33, Colin Law wrote:
Re: Slow to have WineHq-Stable (at least in part)

>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

Odd but it reflects what I see, just confused that all the 5.0 rc's are there?