[Owncloud] Getting owncloud-client in Debian

[Patric Zimmermann]

@all:

Rather than the OC-Client, for me it would be more important to get the OC-Server into the debian repo.
For me personally debian is one of the most stable linux distros out there, thus it is rather meant to be a server (as in my case)
than a client....

just my 2 ct.


Am 29.10.2012 um 17:56 schrieb 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
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