ANN: winetricks in Debian - Ability to follow user reports from Debian PTS

[GoogleCodeExporter]

FYI,

winetricks is included in Debian. To follow the projects and issues reported by 
users against the program, you can subscribe to Debian PTS at:

   http://packages.qa.debian.org/w/winetricks.html

See link at the bottom of page "subscribe to this package".

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jari.aalto.fi@gmail.com on 19 Apr 2011 at 7:00

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That's nice to see.  A few issues:
- you're using an old version.  Since winetricks is full of things that go stale
fast, it's important to stay current
- you wrote your own manpage rather than using the upstream one
- you seem to have retrieved winetricks from svn rather than using the released 
tarballs, e.g. http://winetricks.org/download/releases/winetricks-20110417.tgz

I've invited you to winetricks-announce.  You might want to join winetricks-dev,
it's a better place for discussing ports than the issue tracker.

Original comment by daniel.r...@gmail.com on 19 Apr 2011 at 8:28

• Changed state: Done
• Added labels: Type-Other
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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> you're using an old version.

That version was the latest at the time of packaging 2011-03-09. In Linux 
distributions, an initial package goes to a staging/review area until it is 
accepted.

Later releases will follow.

> you seem to have retrieved winetricks from svn rather than using the released 
tarballs, e.g. http://winetricks.org/download/releases/winetricks-20110417.tgz

Likewise. The tarball was out of date compared to SVN at the time of packaging.

> you wrote your own manpage rather than using the upstream one

Likewise. There was no manual page in the SVN at the time of packaging.

> winetricks-announce, winetricks-dev

Unfortunately the time constraints won't permit me to participate on lists and 
increase my mail volume. With the issue trackers, specific tasks can be easily 
followed with email notifications.

Thanks,
Jari

Original comment by jari.aalto.fi@gmail.com on 19 Apr 2011 at 10:54

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Presumably you'd like to be notified when a new release is available for
packaging, though?  Or do you have a way of polling for that?

Original comment by daniel.r...@gmail.com on 19 Apr 2011 at 3:13

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> ...way of polling for [releases]

YEs. The Debian packaging system includes watch files to follow files in web 
pages.

Jari

Original comment by jari.aal...@gmail.com on 19 Apr 2011 at 4:37