[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Bug#816376: Bug#816376: Unfit upstream

[MJ Ray]

Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> The situation is rather sad and frustrating as users who decided to trust the Debian developers and took their packages over ownCloud's provided packages are now stuck on a version which can't trivially be upgraded to either our upstream version or anything else. We would love to find a solution for them - as I've said many times, our main concern is the end users, rather than politics, rules or anything else.

One of the debian project's top priorities is its users and it has
rather more track record of providing solid software for them for the
long term which is WHY the various rules, policies and guidelines were
defined. They weren't just adopted as self-flagellation by masochists.
There seems to be a complete and total lack of appreciation for that
upstream in this instance.

If owncloud debian packages don't ever have a simple upgrade path, then
that's not much different to using owncloud upstream releases IME! :(

Regards,
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