[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Upstream making our life more and more painful (Was: [owncloud-devel] Bug#815963: Warn users about unsupported upgrade path)

[Martin Steigerwald]

On Sonntag, 28. Februar 2016 12:18:08 CET Martin Steigerwald wrote:
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> That is of course just the db migration, in addition to this Owncloud
> developers did lots of changes in encryption and its mostly a challenge to
> get this right for the upgrade of Owncloud as packaged in Debian. I tried
> it twice meanwhile, both times it was a disaster, last time it could have
> worked, but I misunderstood some of the instructions David wrote in the
> README.Debian file and he clarified it afterwards.

I want to add an important information here: The first time it was a disaster 
cause I tried to switch from 7.0.x Debian packaging to 8.0 upstream packaging, 
as there has not been any 8.x Debian packaging I was aware of – maybe David 
had already a package in his people.debian.org directory. I thought "how 
different could they be?" and just tried it. Now I know better,

Only the second time I tried to work purely with Debian packaging, by using 
David´s 8.0 interim package to migrate to 8.1 (I think) afterwards.

Thanks,
-- 
Martin