[Owncloud] Getting owncloud-client in Debian

Klaas Freitag freitag at owncloud.com
Wed Oct 31 10:35:12 UTC 2012


Hi,

>>>
>>> https://open.cryptomilk.org/attachments/download/3/0001-csync_config-Drop-
>>> iniparser-dependency.patch
>>
>> Its not to difficult (and allowed) to apply the patch in the version to
>> upload in Debian.
>> So the package in Debian could drop the depend on libiniparser.
>
> It's not ideal (and a valid reason for rejection) to have downstream (i.e.
> Debian) ship a patch that is NAK'ed upstream. The right way to do it would be
> to port to ding-libs (whatever that is, Andreas suggests he'd ACK a patch
> doing that), upstream that and package the result for Debian.
I don't know ding-libs but if thats in debian and others (!), fine, go 
ahead and convince Andreas. I can't find it for openSUSE after a quick 
search, so this might be replacing one bad with the other?

> Let's not ignore that libiniparser not only sucks for Debian, but for others
> as well. The source doesn't even have a build system, (portability?) it
> contained multiple WTFs when I installed it from source on my system. It's
> just really bad.
We upstreamed a couple of fixes already (lots of const issues) and domme 
has a cmake port ready to upstream. Try to motivate him on IRC ;o)

Lets fix stuff instead of mimimi, ok? ;-)

Klaas





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