Klaas Freitag <frei...@owncloud.com> > On 29.10.2012 13:42, MJ Ray wrote: > > Jean-Louis Dupond <jean-lo...@dupond.be> > >> Wouldn't it be a good idea to get the ownCloud Client packages in > >> Debian repositories? [...] > > > > Yes. > Why btw? > > The idea of doing it in the buildservice is to provide the users with > the latest versions quickly after release, which is important to users > especially of Ubuntu and friends. We get that feedback regularly. > > If the package on OBS are not ok, we're eager to hear why and to get > patches to improve that.
The packages on OBS fall down two ways: Firstly, they don't follow debian-policy and contain other things which are arguably bugs. The fixes are available linked from http://packages.qa.debian.org/owncloud at http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-owncloud/owncloud.git;a=tree;f=debian/patches;hb=HEAD Secondly, each repository is another thing to enable on each client system. Here, I disagree slightly with others: I feel the client is more important to keep stable and get in more distributions, because server sysadmins will be more comfortable adding third-party software sources. I feel that the clients are aimed at a wider audience. OBS itself falls down in three ways: The instructions (at http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=isv:ownCloud:community&package=owncloud-client which requires javascript for no good reason) are not best practice, because they modify sources.list. It should say to add a file in the sources.list.d folder, to avoid needless conflicts during upgrades. Last week, OBS itself seemed to go down for a few minutes when I was trying to use it and a web search didn't find mirrors. And it just feels a bit strange putting an opensuse address into a debian package manager, doesn't it? ;-) Hope that informs, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list Owncloud@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
