Debian's wintricks package doesn't work that well right now on 64-bit with wine 1.9xx, either.
Anyway I did make a Merge/Sync request so we can track this in a bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/winetricks/+bug/1574681 Thanks, Bryan On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Bryan Quigley <bryan.quig...@canonical.com> wrote: > 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 >
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