[Owncloud] Getting owncloud-client in Debian

[Jean-Louis Dupond]

On 2012-10-29 15:03, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> 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.
The code of the owncloud-client? Or is only libiniparser the problem?

>
>> 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
Its not to difficult (and allowed) to apply the patch in the version to 
upload in Debian.
So the package in Debian could drop the depend on libiniparser.

>
> Cheers,