[Owncloud] Getting owncloud-client in Debian

[Patric Zimmermann]

fair enough Georg. 

...but sadly it's only the 4.0 release and not the 4.5.
I hope when wheezy becomes stable, that this will come at least with the 4.0.8 release...

just my 2 ct.


Am 29.10.2012 um 19:11 schrieb 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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