[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Would a backport be useful?

[Jan Wagner]

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Hi David,

Am 27.06.2013 23:55, schrieb David Prévot:
> Le 03/06/2013 10:49, Jan Wagner a écrit :
>> is there an estimated timeframe/roadmap for pushing this beast
>> into wheezy-backports?
> 
> That can’t happen before it hits Jessie, but the last RC issue
> affecting ownCloud should vanish with the next upload. That will
> probably happen with the next upstream point release (and so, the
> migration to testing should happen ten days after that).

I'm familiar with the precoditions to get packages into *-backports. ;)

>> I noticed that the dependencies raised and there is a huge amount
>> of packages that needs to get also backported (or maybe droping
>> features at build-time).
> 
> Actually, there is not much executed at build time, and the
> ownCloud version currently in experimental just works as is in
> Wheezy and even in Squeeze, so I see little point backporting it
> for the moment.

looking into _direct_ the dependencies for :

owncloud 5.0.x:
fonts-font-awesome: not in wheezy
libjs-jquery-timepicker: not in wheezy
libjs-pdf: not in wheezy
php-aws-sdk: not in wheezy
php-sabre-dav: not in wheezy
php-sabre-vobject: not in wheezy
php-seclib: not in wheezy

owncloud-doc 0~20130624-1:
libjs-twitter-bootstrap not in wheezy

I did not have a look into unresolved builddeps und indirect dependencies.

I tried to build them down for wheezy, but got stuck somewhere at
(build-)deps of php-aws-sdk as far I remember. But maybe we can drop
aws support for the backport.

Anyhow ... even if some of those packages chould be just installed via
downloading and kicking into the systeme via "dpkg -i" ... this is no
comfortable way for users and there is no updatetrain via a source list.

As was offered by the Owncloud Maintainers to provided stable packages
for wheezy via backports in favor of having rotten an unmaintained
version in stable, I (and perhaps others) would prefer to have these
packages provided via wheezy-backports sooner than later.

Many thanks for your work, Jan.
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