[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Bug#761396: owncloud: Backports version should depend on php-sabre-dav >=1.8

[Cyril Brulebois]

David Prévot <taffit at debian.org> (2014-09-13):
> Hi Tom,
> 
> Thanks for your interest in the backported owncloud package.
> 
> “Please report bugs that you found in the packages to the backports
> mailinglist[1] and NOT to the Debian BTS!”[2]
> 
>    1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/
>    2: http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/#index6h2
> 
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 05:03:39PM +0200, Michael Herold wrote:
> 
> > I upgraded owncloud to version 7 from backports. Then I got errors that
> > the class Sabre\DAV\URLUtil is missing. It turned out that php-sabre-dav
> > 1.7 seems to have a different naming convention for classes. Upgrading
> > to version 1.8.10-1~bpo70+1 from backports resolved the issue.
> > 
> > Sounds like a proper dependency with php-sabre-dav >=1.8 could save
> > other people from this trouble.
> > 
> > Thanks for all the good work on packaging owncloud!
> 
> No such version is available, even in oldstable, stable or backports, so
> there should be no good reason to have an outdated package on your
> system.
> 
> $ rmadison php-sabre-dav
> debian:
>  php-sabre-dav | 1.8.10-1~bpo70+1 | wheezy-backports | all
>  php-sabre-dav | 1.8.10-1         | jessie           | all
>  php-sabre-dav | 1.8.10-1         | sid              | all
>  php-sabre-dav | 2.0.4-1          | experimental     | all

If 1.7 is unsuitable, having a versioned dependency to help with partial
upgrades (and possibly downstreams having slightly different package
versions), or with custom packages people might not have upgraded from,
looks like an easy thing to implement. ;)

Mraw,
KiBi.
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