[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Would a backport be useful?

[Jan Wagner]

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Hi Sandro,

Am 15.09.2013 23:19, schrieb Sandro Knauß:
> I saw your blog post
> http://blog.waja.info/2013/09/11/owncloud-for-debian-wheezy/ and
> find it great, that you have fiddeled out to build it for wheezy- 
> backports. I would really like to see you packages under
> backports.debian.org - Would you like to be responsible for that (
> as part or not as part of the team)? If you need a sponsor for
> backports, that would be also possible.

actually the owncloud packages itself aren't the problem: The problem
is the wide range of (build-)dependencies, which is also raising from
release to release. Maintaining the owncloud backport in
wheezy-backports implies uploading and maintaining those packages also
there for the next 3 years. There may be the situation in the future,
where it is not possible to backport one of those packages for one or
another reason (for example build-deps could not be solved [anymore]).
Been there, done that ...

> As most teams we have leak of manpower. That's why david told you,
> that he doesn't wants to push the packages to backports. But I like
> the idea of proper backport packages. Actually I prepered the
> owncloud-client packages to come to backports ( If the newest
> versinos enters testing).

As one man show (without deeper knowledge of the owncloud packaging),
it is not possible to maintain all those packages proper in an
official Debian repository for me. I don't like the idea, that I'm not
able to provide recent packages (keep in mind the build-deps) and
users sitting on buggy/unsecure software. This is the main reason just
providing them in my own repository.

Actually the most problematic packages from my POV are:

nodejs (pulled by node-uglify)
pkg-php-tools (pulled as build-dep by some php-* dependencies)

Cheers, Jan.
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