[arch-general] VLC and Wine have been out-of-date too long.

[Nathan Wayde]

On 26/06/10 08:28, Lauri Niskanen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> usually Arch Linux have had very quick updates to packages when the
> upstream bumbed a version. However, I am slightly annoyed by the fact
> that VLC [1] and Wine [2] have been out-of-date for a long time.
>
> VLC 1.1.0 was released about a week ago and Wine 1.2-rc1 was released on
> 2010-05-21. Now there is Wine 1.2-rc5.
>
> I should also note that regardless of the Wine being a release candidate
> it is as stable release as 1.1.x-versions including the currently
> packaged 1.1.44. The officially "stable" version is 1.0.1, but 1.1.x and
> 1.2rc are considered very stable, yet they are officially both
> "development version". I agree with the one who packaged 1.1.x in Arch,
> it is stable enough for Arch and 1.0.1 is just too out date.
>
> Please update vlc to 1.1.0 and Wine to 1.2-rc5.
>
> [1] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/vlc/
> [2] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/wine/
>
`abs`