[ubuntu-uk] Wine bug - new package?

[Barry Drake]

On 30/03/15 00:22, James Morrissey wrote:
>
> Doesn't seem to fix the problem mentioned in the bugs offered by Barry:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine1.6/+bug/1414995
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wine1.6/+bug/1383214
> > Can someone tell me how to install an older version?

Don't even try!  I did - and broke almost everything because of 
incompatible QT stuff.  The whole problem as far as I can see, was down 
to the latest QT being incompatible with the current wine package.  I've 
flagged it up with the last known Ubuntu wine package maintainer but 
with no success as shown in  the above.

Looks like someone ought to take it up with wineHQ.  It is really up to 
the Ubuntu folk to find a willing packager.  There is a fixed Debian DEB 
package, but Ubuntu won't install it properly .....  It won't meet the 
dependencies - possibly because of more anomalies - I forget what the 
messages say!

As I say, the problem is fixed in wine itself - if you want to grab the 
code and build the wine package you could do that.  But I think you'll 
get the same dependency problems that the Debian package shows.  It is 
just easier for me to use Mint for the time being.

Regards,		Barry.

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