[Owncloud] Getting owncloud-client in Debian

[Georg Ehrke]

It's already in wheezy.
http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/owncloud

On 29.10.2012, at 18:52, Patric Zimmermann <Patric.Zimmermann at physik.tu-berlin.de> wrote:

> @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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