[Owncloud] Getting owncloud-client in Debian

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Monday, October 29, 2012 17:22:04 Klaas Freitag wrote:
> On 29.10.2012 13:42, MJ Ray wrote:
> > Jean-Louis Dupond <jean-louis at dupond.be>
> > 
> >> Wouldn't it be a good idea to get the ownCloud Client packages in
> >> Debian repositories? [...]
> > 
> > Yes.
> 
> Why btw?

One reason would be that ownCloud's and Debian's release cycles differ. People 
who run Debian stable might not want to always run the latest stable of 
everything, but prefer "no shifting ground under their feet".

Besides that, adding a source to the package manager is not something 
everybody can and should do, or is allowed to.

What could work is that a Debian developer pulls in the latest release of the 
ownCloud client before a freeze, so that the latest possible version enters 
Debian stable.

It's basically upstream vs. downstream considerations.
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