[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] ownCloud client packages are pretty outdated

[Pierre-Elliott Bécue]

[Adding the owncloud people we're not sure to have on list]

Hi Fabian,

Please read the quoted mail from MJ Ray, and my reply below the quote.

MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote on 20/05/2022 at 14:31:37+0200:

> On Fri, 20 May 2022 11:33:46 +0200
> Fabian Müller <fmueller at owncloud.com> wrote:
>
>> we recently saw that the ownCloud client packages are pretty outdated
>> in Debian. I'd therefore like to ask whether it's possible for you to
>> provide more recent releases, or whether there are any issues which
>> prevent Debian packaging.
>> 
>> In case we can assist you, please don't hesitate to let me know.
>
> Could you advise as to the current download location, please? It looks
> like maybe the right people didn't detect the new version releases
> because it moved from the address format shown on
> https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/watch?pkg=owncloud-client
> or at least download.owncloud.com seems to redirect to
> attic.owncloud.com now.
>
> I expect your website is very good at directing people to the correct
> version to download but we don't really have enough volunteers to click
> through lots of websites just on the off-chance there's a new release.
>
> There is also a comment in the recent packaging history that I do not
> really understand about "documentation building made impossible" which
> may be a problem but I am not sure it blocks a new release.
>
> 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.
>
> Hope that helps,

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.

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.

With best regards,
-- 
PEB
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