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

[Sandro Knauß]

Hi Jan,

I saw your blog post http://blog.waja.info/2013/09/11/owncloud-for-debian-wheezy/ and find it great, that you have fiddeled out to build it for wheezy-
backports. I would really like to see you packages under backports.debian.org 
- Would you like to be responsible for that ( as part or not as part of the 
team)? If you need a sponsor for backports, that would be also possible. 

As most teams we have leak of manpower. That's why david told you, that he 
doesn't wants to push the packages to backports. But I like the idea of proper 
backport packages. Actually I prepered the owncloud-client packages to come to 
backports ( If the newest versinos enters testing).

Regards,

sandro

Am Mittwoch, 3. Juli 2013, 17:57:55 schrieb Jan Wagner:
> Hi David,
> 
> Am 03.07.2013 17:42, schrieb David Prévot:
> > Again, all these “missing” dependencies can be installed in a
> > Wheezy or a Squeeze system without the need to rebuild them.
> > 
> >> Anyhow ... even if some of those packages chould be just
> >> installed via downloading and kicking into the systeme via "dpkg
> >> -i" ...
> > 
> > Not at all, just the proper lines in /etc/apt/sources.list (with
> > the proper pinning in /etc/apt/preferences{,.d/}) do the trick..
> 
> as we define wheezy as a stable release, I call this procedere just a
> rapid development one.
> As I understand you from the developers point of view, this it not a
> way anybody of our users would expect to install a Debian package on a
> stable system. Exactly for this purpose the backports service was
> provided.
> 
> The promise for providing a "backport" any other way then via a
> (prefered official backports) source list it just a joke.
> 
> Just my 2 cents, Jan.

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