Wine versions and Debian

[Thomas Milne]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 05:38:20PM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
>> The latest stable version of Wine is 1.2, according to this:
>>
>> http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.2
>>
>> I am running Debian Testing.
>>
>> When I run 'apt-get install wine' it says I have the latest version,
>> however 'wine --version' says wine-1.1.25
>>
>> I have this in my sources.list:
>>
>> #Wine
>>
>> deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt sid main
>>
>> What am I doing wrong here?
>
> Well it seems wine is a mess to build, which seems to be the reason
> debian still hasn't got it packaged.  It needs mingw32 updates which
> are not all done yet, and the 64bit wine (which 1.2 supports) requires
> a 64bit mingw32 which has apparently been abandoned (so that needs work).
>
> There are people working on it, but it looks like there won't be updated
> debian packages for a while.
>
> --
> Len Sorensen

Ah, that explains it. Funny, though, building Wine has never been
difficult when I've tried it, is this a new problem?
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