[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] ownCloud client packages are pretty outdated

[Pierre-Elliott Bécue]

Fabian Müller <fmueller at owncloud.com> wrote on 21/05/2022 at 01:01:24+0200:

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> Hi Pierre-Elliot,
>
> I had not received MJ's mail before, thank you for forwarding it to
> me. I should have subscribed to the list first, of course.
>> I'd be happy to package a newer version but indeed it seems that you
>> moved out your repo/release from
>> https://download.owncloud.com/desktop/stable/, where 2.6.3 is the latest
>> advertised version. As it's this page where our tracker feeds, and as I
>> have litterally a ton of other commitments, the version move was totally
>> missed.
>> Where can I find proper tarballs to build? The current download
>> system
>> points to "distribution packages" or "appimage", which doesn't fit at
>> all.
>
> I was hoping it was just some kind of minor issue that is easy to
> resolve and just needs a bit of communication between upstream and 
> downstream.
>
> The location has indeed changed in the past, probably around
> 2020. Nowadays, there are theme-specific directories containing the
> releases. The ones relevant for Debian are the ownCloud theme
> ones. They are served from
> https://download.owncloud.com/desktop/ownCloud/stable/, with
> https://download.owncloud.com/desktop/ownCloud/stable/latest/ always 
> pointing to the latest release. You can find the official source
> tarballs in 
> https://download.owncloud.com/desktop/ownCloud/stable/latest/source/,
> which include everything required to build binaries for all platforms.
>
> The pattern just needs a small modification, then it should work again.
>
> Admittedly, navigating the download page can be challenging. I'll
> suggest to add a README in the server's root directory to guide future 
> visitors.
>
> As far as I can see, unstable should contain packages for all the
> dependencies, so that should also not be an issue. Our upcoming 3.0 
> release has the same requirements as 2.10.
>
>> While we're at it, you indeed changed the way documentation is built
>> back in 2020. It's done in a way that made impossible for it to be built
>> in Debian, which is quite a bummer.
> I assume you refer to the merger of the client and server docs while
> transforming to the Antora docs generator.
>
> Maybe you can elaborate on what kind of format you'd need and/or
> prefer? I'll happily discuss ideas with the team. We already thought
> about providing specialized tarballs for distro packaging purposes. We
> could for instance just add the client docs source (or maybe compiled
> HTML) to them.
>
> We're interested in making your life a little bit easier, so please
> let us know how we can help sort this out. We know distros like Debian
> have special requirements and rules, and you're the ones who know them
> best.
>
>>> Other than that, patches to fix any of the bugs shown at
>>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=owncloud-client
>>> - or telling us which ones you think are fixed in the current
>      version >> - would probably help speed up packaging and inclusion
>     of a newer
>>> version.
>
> I had a quick look at the owncloud-client-bugs. Most of them are
> reported for very old versions of the client, which has seen years of 
> development and improvements since. They'd require re-testing of the
> users. Many of them have not even seen a reply from the users when 
> they're asked to try a new version. I think it's reasonable to assume
> they've been fixed upstream. If not, we'd of course like to debug and 
> fix them upstream.
>
> Best regards
> Fabian

Hey Fabian,

I started working on a new version. So far I get errors @ building the
package.

I have attached the build file (it's plaintext), see if you can spare me
some debug time, otherwise I'll resume this weekend I think.

Cheers!
-- 
PEB
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