I thought about the Wine side, not the packagers one. See the winehq website : as a _user_, would you start by using the development version ? > Latest Releases > Stable: Wine 1.0.1 (shortlog) > Development: Wine 1.1.39 (shortlog) > There already packages downgrades available with all packages managers in case of problems, whats the point keeping the old version ? A great amount of reports of wine are caused by people using a "stable" version that has bugs.