[Owncloud] Getting owncloud-client in Debian

Jean-Louis Dupond jean-louis at dupond.be
Mon Oct 29 18:39:25 UTC 2012


Debian Wheezy is frozen for some months now.
Its just impossible to get the most recent version in a Debian Stable
release.

But that doesn't take away the fact a recent  version in Unstable is
just possible :)

Op 29-10-12 19:27, Patric Zimmermann schreef:
> 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
>> <mailto: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
>>>> <http://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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