[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] About no more ownCloud in Debian

[Hideki Yamane]

Hi,

 I didn't involved in owncloud package, but I want to tall you that ownCloud 
 upstream developers probably has misunderstood with Debian's version
 skipping patch.

 It was pushed to "experimental" repository: it means, users don't get it
 without "strong clear intention".

 Users who want to use package in experimental repo should do as below:

 1. edit /etc/apt/sources.list to enable experimental repo
 2. "apt-get install owncloud/experimental" to pull owncloud package from
    experimental

 Its repo is named "experimental", normal users never touch it. It is based
 on unstable (development) repo "plus" experimental package - super dangerous
 but needs test by advanced users.

 You said "You want users to lose data?!?!" in previous mail, but we would
 say "experimental is dangerous, yes, dangerous as its name"
 see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/resources.html#s4.6.4

 experimental repository is separated repo, so its uploaded package never
 goes into normal Debian release, not only stable but also unstable and testing.

 If you get some source from "dangerous" branch and got some trouble, is it
 fault with authors? Should you blame them? - I don't think so.


 Of course, package maintainer should ask problems to upstream, but "just test"
 should not be blamed, just you upstream should say "Why you did such thing?
 Does it do any harm for users?" - it's enough, not make a charge against 
 Debian package maintainers with loud voice.


-- 
Regards,

 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.or.jp/org
 http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane