[Owncloud] Getting owncloud-client in Debian

[Sebastian Kügler]

Hey,

On Monday, October 29, 2012 13:23:07 Jean-Louis Dupond wrote:
> Wouldn't it be a good idea to get the ownCloud Client packages in 
> Debian repositories?

Certainly.

> Now the packages are build on a 3rd party repository (suse).
> 
> Is there any reason the package wasn't brought into Debian?

Yes, upstream code quality is insufficient.

> If its ok for everyone, I will try to get the packages 
> (owncloud-client, ocsync and libiniparser) into Debian Unstable.
> When the packages are accepted, this will be synced with Ubuntu also.
> 
> I think its a good idea to have the packages in debian/ubuntu by 
> default.
> Its much more user friendly then asking the client to add a custom 
> repository.
> 
> Any opinions?

You won't be able to get libiniparser into Debian, it doesn't have a proper 
build system, and it's a lot of code for something rather simple. See 
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=582657

In short: it has to be replaced in csync, but Andreas is not convinced by 
that. There's a proposed patch even: 
https://open.cryptomilk.org/attachments/download/3/0001-csync_config-Drop-
iniparser-dependency.patch

Cheers,
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sebas

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