I can relate, winetricks wasn't working for me in the archive, eventually figured out I should just download it.
Debian has 20151116, so just dropping our delta might be a good option too. I'm hoping to be able to drop our Wine delta too (stuck on 1.6 - more complicated transition though) and winetricks might be something worth looking at first. Kind regards, Bryan On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 4:35 AM, Daniel Holbach <daniel.holb...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > Hello Austin, > > On 25.04.2016 09:12, Austin English wrote: >> So, I'd like to know what the process is for having a maintainer removed >> from a package, so that someone else can maintain it. If not, I'd prefer >> to see Winetricks removed from Ubuntu, as currently it's more broken >> than useful. I'd say Wine should probably also be removed if it's not >> going to be maintained, but that's my personal opinion as it's not been >> discussed upstream. > > we have no maintainer lock in Ubuntu. So we either need to find somebody > who's willing to get updated packages into Ubuntu via the sponsorship > process: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SponsorshipProcess > > > The other option would be to remove the packages altogether, but if wine > upstream already provides packages, they could maybe be put into Ubuntu > using the process mentioned above? > > Have a great day, > Daniel > > -- > Get involved with Snappy Ubuntu Core! developer.ubuntu.com/snappy/ > Follow @ubuntudev on twitter.com/facebook.com/G+ > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss