[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] OC4 for wheezy!

[Thomas Goirand]

On 05/18/2012 02:52 PM, Thomas Müller wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> as you probably know: I want OC4 in wheezy! ;-)
> And that's gone be a tough task - as you might know - the NEW queue will stop processing after May 20th! [0]
> 
> Currently we have two unresolved dependencies:
> sabredav: 
> An initial package has been uploaded to mentors [1]. 
> Thomas Goirand volunteered to sponsor/maintain.
> Unfortunately Thomas didn't react to my mails in the past days.
> 
> mdb2_schema:
> Thomas Goirand is working on that as well. And there is still an unresolved 
> licensing issue with one of it's dependencies (xml_dtd). [2]
> 
> @Thomas: Are you  there? ;-)

Yes I am.

But since there's no news from the XML_DTD upstream author, I see no
point in going further. We need that to be fixed first.

> @pkg-owncloud-maintainers:
> How do we proceed?
> For sabredav we have two options:
> 1.) keep it within the owncloud package as 3rdparty - just like *still* some other
> 2.) we push sabredav ourself

I'd have helped if I had time. Currently, I'm busy with other stuff,
sorry. BTW, I don't think it's a good idea to rush in before Wheezy is
frozen. Usually, it's a much better idea to rush to do your package *at
the beginning* of a Debian development, not at the end. That is, I think
you should aim at Wheezy +1, not Wheezy. Anyway, even if you miss the
target of Wheezy, you can always work on backports later on!

> For mdb2_schema we actually have only the option to keep it in the package for now.
> Afaik the licensing issue will not hit us, because xml_dtd is not required with owncloud.

It is. XML_DTD is a hard dependency of mdb2_schema, and there's no way
you will be able to upload mdb2_schema without xml_dtd. Have a look at
the pear.php.net site, or download the package.xml from mdb2_schema if
you don't believe me.

Cheers,

Thomas