wine users - Apr 2008 - Re: Ubuntu users, please upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy for Wine 0

Right after I made the post the update was available.

Scott Ritchie wrote:
> To prevent conflicts when upgrading to 8.04, older releases will no longer
be getting Wine updates.  Ubuntu Hardy will be released this Thursday, and
contains many fixes that also affect Wine, such as support for some missing
libraries in the 64 bit version.
Out of interest, could you write a little about what conflicts upgraders to 8.04
would have encountered, considering that Wine packages for various earlier
Ubuntu versions were available simultaneously?

It does suck a bit that Wine builds for all earlier Ubuntu versions were
discontinued the second 8.04 was released, as of course many people don't
want to/aren't ready to upgrade just yet. Even Microsoft wouldn't be
that unkind... :)

Would it be possible to, as a workaround for any upgrade-to-8.04 problems, to
resume building Wine for older Ubuntu versions, but put them in a different
repository? Then people who are for the time being staying with older versions
can get them, and will know to remove Wine before upgrading to 8.04 in future
(if necessary). And people who don't explicitly add the new repository
won't get any Wine versions past 0.9.59 until they upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04.