wine users - Feb 2009 - Updating to a Development Version breaks 'wine-dev'

Hi, I am relatively new to Linux but know what I'm doing.

I have installed Ubuntu and WinE (through synaptic package manager so it took
the latest stable version, 1.0.1)

Warcraft III worked perfectly in this version. But GGClient (also known as
Garena, a program used to play low-latency games with others on the internet
through a VPN) does not work in this version of WinE. So I looked it up, and it
has gold rating on 1.0.11, working perfectly.

So I install 1.0.11 from the repository of previous WinE versions on WineHQ
site, and this successfully changes both wine and wine-dev versions, and Garena
works!

So what is the problem you ask? Well it says in Synaptic Package Manager that a
package is now broken. I check it out, 'wine-dev' is considered broken
by Synaptic because it has a dependency of the 'wine' version to be
1.0.1, although it itself is 1.0.11. If BOTH wine and wine-dev packages are
1.0.11, then why the hell does wine-dev have a dependency for the wine version
to have to be 1.0.1?? It doesn't make sense, its the old dependency it had
when it was 1.0.1.....

So I had to uninstall and downgrade back to 1.0.1 temporarily so i could install
more stuff (cant install anything with a broken package)

Thanks in advance for your help.

linuxgamer000 wrote:
> Hi, I am relatively new to Linux but know what I'm doing.
> 
> I have installed Ubuntu and WinE (through synaptic package manager so it
took the latest stable version, 1.0.1)
> 
> Warcraft III worked perfectly in this version. But GGClient (also known as
Garena, a program used to play low-latency games with others on the internet
through a VPN) does not work in this version of WinE. So I looked it up, and it
has gold rating on 1.0.11, working perfectly.
> 
> So I install 1.0.11 from the repository of previous WinE versions on WineHQ
site, and this successfully changes both wine and wine-dev versions, and Garena
works!
> 
> So what is the problem you ask? Well it says in Synaptic Package Manager
that a package is now broken. I check it out, 'wine-dev' is considered
broken by Synaptic because it has a dependency of the 'wine' version to
be 1.0.1, although it itself is 1.0.11. If BOTH wine and wine-dev packages are
1.0.11, then why the hell does wine-dev have a dependency for the wine version
to have to be 1.0.1?? It doesn't make sense, its the old dependency it had
when it was 1.0.1.....
> 
> So I had to uninstall and downgrade back to 1.0.1 temporarily so i could
install more stuff (cant install anything with a broken package)
> 

There is no 1.0.11. Do you mean 1.1.11? In any case, packages are built by the
distros; if you are having a problem with them, you need to report that to your
distro.