[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Bug#815963: Warn users about unsupported upgrade path

[Chris]

Hi,

thanks for your reply.

> We already do, that’s exactly the purpose of the NEWS file.
> 
> https://sources.debian.net/src/owncloud/8.2.2~dfsg-1/debian/NEWS/

i'm not that familiar with the NEWS file but if this is shown it's already too late and the new files are already nearly "deployed" or am i wrong?

Furthermore the NEWS file is only telling to use the 8.0.10 from https://people.debian.org/~taffit/owncloud/ where 8.1.5 is also needed before going to 8.2.2

> The Debian package is patched to allow it.
> 
> https://sources.debian.net/src/owncloud/8.2.2~dfsg-1/debian/patches/0009-Don-t-stop-update-over-several-major-versions.patch/

That is probably something you really shouldn't do. I think there is a reason why this check there is in place.

Maybe some one at the oC developers mailing list can tell you more.