I discovered that there was a release for wine-devel and staging for version 10.8, but apt update does not know about wine-staging 10.8 in spite of these files are available in the repository.
I don’t know if this is an error or an oversight from winehq repository maintenance.
However there was at the same time of the wine-staging release 10.8 a wine-devel 10.8 release and this one is installable with apt install. So i installed that, manually downloaded the 1.10.1 launcher and installed that as well and now i am running 1.10.1 launcher with winehq-devel 10.8 fine.
On debian i just switched to winehq-devel with:
apt install --install-recommends winehq-devel
Launcher 1.10.1 can be downloaded here:
https://launcher.ccpgames.com/eve-online/release/win32/x64/eve-online-1.10.1+Setup.exe
I didn’t want to try manually downloading and installing the winehq-staging 10.8 files for now. Maybe they got retracted or something else. I will switch back to wine-staging when devel is not up to run eve anymore.