[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Bug#969788: Fwd: Re: Bug#969788: nextcloud-desktop: Upgrade removed part of configuration

[Markus Frosch]

Control: severity -1 important

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Von: Sandro Knauß <mail at sandroknauss.de>
An: Tobias Frost <tobi at debian.org>, 969788 at bugs.debian.org, Markus Frosch <
lazyfrosch at debian.org>, Erwan David <erwan at rail.eu.org>
Betreff: Re: Bug#969788: nextcloud-desktop: Upgrade removed part of 
configuration
Datum: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 21:04:34 +0200

> Control: severity 969576 important
> 
> Hey,
> 
> from my side it seems like not many people have the problem that the 
> configuration is lost while doing the upgrade. So I think, it is just a
> normal 
> bug you found. Please report it upstream and provide us the url, so that we 
> can track the upstream status.
> 
> hefee
> 
> --
> On Donnerstag, 10. September 2020 20:16:48 CEST you wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:27:37 +0200 Tobias Frost <tobi at debian.org> wrote:
> > > I'll see if I can find some logs…
> > 
> > Ok, it seems so that my instance deletes its configuration itself…
> > 
> > But I think that needs a word on my configuration:
> > ~/Documents is synced with my Nextcloud intance
> > I have setup XDG_DATA and XDG_CONFIG to be on
> > ~/Documents/XDG/$hostname/{XDG_DATA XDG_CONFIG}
> > (to be able to share XDG configurations files on complicant apps more easy
> > between PCs)
> > 
> > ~/Documents/XDG/isildor/XDG_CONFIG/Nextcloud is a symlink to
> > ~/.config/Nextcloud (so it is not on the share)
> > 
> > It seems that nextcloud app is deleting that file, (following the symlink)
> > 
> > Of course this could be a read herring, as I naively tried to reconfigure
> > the nextcloud without deleting Documents and I just got conflict everywhere
> > now.
> > 
> > It is possible the the app is following the symlink and thinks, hey , file
> > not on the nextcloud server, delete it… Could be another bug though; (I
> > guess it should not follow symlinks, at least it used to ignore symlinks
> > when syncing to servers)
> > 
> > Next step I'll try a fresh resync…
> 
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