[Owncloud] Getting owncloud-client in Debian

[Diederik de Haas]

On Monday 29 October 2012 17:22:04 Klaas Freitag wrote:
> > Yes.
> Why btw?

Speaking for myself (of course):
I rarely install packages outside of the Debian repositories and I think users 
of Debian (especially stable) should do so too, unless you really "need" a pkg 
which is not (or can not, ie deb-multimedia.org) distributed by Debian.
I have 2 main reasons for that:
- Debian (Developers and infrastructure) does a lot to make sure all packages 
meet some quality standards, that it's checked legally (licenses) and most 
importantly that the various pkgs in the archive work seamlessly together and 
can be managed by the standard tools
- I think ppl should be discouraged by installing 'random' pkgs from the 
internet. The pkgs in Debian are checksummed, digitally signed and the integrity 
of a pkg is checked before it gets installed on your system.
Randomly downloading and installing programs is why windows is so plagued by 
virusses/trojan-horses/etc. I think the whole ppa thing from ubuntu is 
(therefor) a bad idea.

This does not mean that pkgs outside the Debian repositories are bad or provided 
with malicious intend.

> 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.

I can't speak for Ubuntu, but owncloud 4.0.8 pkgs were in Debian unstable the 
night 4.0.8 was released. Thomas (deepdiver) does an excellent job wrt packaging 
owncloud for Debian :-)

HTH,
  Diederik