[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Bug#942645: owncloud-client: "Server version unsupported" message unhelpful

[Conrad J.C. Hughes (for Debian package stuff)]

Package: owncloud-client
Version: 2.5.1.10973+dfsg-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I've connected to a server but am receiving a message "The server version
9.0.2.2- is unsupported! Proceed at your own risk."

This message is confusing, since it doesn't give any clue as to what the client
version is.  The Debian package version, 2.5.1.10973+dfsg-1, is so wildly at
odds with 9.0.2.2 that there doesn't seem a meaningful comparison.  Is this a
protocol version?  Indeed, Internet discussions of same indicate that there's
no meaningful comparison between the two at all, but it looks as if pre-10
servers are obsolete.

Perhaps the client could indicate what server versions it supports, and suggest
a judgement as to whether it's the client or the server that needs an upgrade?

Best,
Conrad



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages owncloud-client depends on:
ii  libc6                 2.28-10
ii  libgcc1               1:8.3.0-6
ii  libowncloudsync0      2.5.1.10973+dfsg-1
ii  libqt5core5a          5.11.3+dfsg1-1
ii  libqt5dbus5           5.11.3+dfsg1-1
ii  libqt5gui5            5.11.3+dfsg1-1
ii  libqt5keychain1       0.9.1-2
ii  libqt5network5        5.11.3+dfsg1-1
ii  libqt5sql5-sqlite     5.11.3+dfsg1-1
ii  libqt5webkit5         5.212.0~alpha2-21
ii  libqt5widgets5        5.11.3+dfsg1-1
ii  libqt5xml5            5.11.3+dfsg1-1
ii  libstdc++6            8.3.0-6
ii  owncloud-client-l10n  2.5.1.10973+dfsg-1

Versions of packages owncloud-client recommends:
ii  owncloud-client-doc  2.5.1.10973+dfsg-1

owncloud-client suggests no packages.

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