[aur-requests] [PRQ#31697] Deletion Request for wine37

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Thu Jan 27 14:00:41 UTC 2022


MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for wine37 [2]:

Linked source file does not exist.

There is zero reason to have a package for Wine development (unstable)
version 3.7 from 27 April 2018.

Wine's legacy stable versions might have slightly better rationale to
be hosted here.

But actually I fail to see the reason to use any outdated Wine
version, since the new versions support everything the old ones did.

Also, only stable releases (4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0 etc.) are being
maintained and fixed with point releases, but only for a year each
AFAIK.

Moreover, even after fixing the source link for this package and
trying to build it, the build fails because there is a
misconfiguration in the source itself. It invokes the source-builtin
tool 'wrc' with a parameter that it does not support. But this kind of
thing happens with unstable software releases.

Safe to delete since nothing in AUR depend on it. The less outdated
and non-working alternatives hosted here, the better the chances users
will find the working, up-to-date versions.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/wine37/


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