[Owncloud] Automatic upgrade from 4.5.7 to 5.0rc3 seems to have broken my installation

Klaas Freitag freitag at owncloud.com
Mon Mar 11 19:14:35 UTC 2013


On 11.03.2013 09:54, Chris Green wrote:
> I'm running owncloud on an xubuntu 12.10 system.  I have the owncloud
> Ubuntu repository in my apt sources so today my owncloud installation
> got automatically upgraded to version 5.0.0RC3.
>
> This has broken my owncloud installation.
That was a kind of broken package, I apologize for the trouble that had 
caused. But - you should not use the devel repository for ownCloud 
server. We keep the isv:ownCloud:community stable for production 
purposes. Devel is rather for working on packages and stuff.

So a couple of comments and
> questions:-
>
>      Should the repository have offered a major new version (and only a
>      release candidate at that) as an upgrade?  It's not the normal
>      Ubuntu way of doing things, within a particular Ubuntu release one
>      usually only gets minor upgrades with bug fixes and security stuff.
Yes, of course it should not.

Klaas

>




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