[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] owncloud 7.0.0 in wheezy-backports: no webodf support?

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Freitag, 15. August 2014, 09:26:30 schrieb Mike Gabriel:
> Hi David,
> 
> On  Mi 13 Aug 2014 20:11:46 CEST, David Prévot wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >> On  Mo 11 Aug 2014 09:25:21 CEST, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> >> 
> >> @David: can you give feedback on this? Is webodf working in the
> >> unstable package of owncloud?
> > 
> > Yes, it?s working in unstable and in testing, and is a known issue of the
> > backports package.
> > 
> > CCing an exchange we had three months ago on #debian-owncloud:
> > 
> > 15:58 < taffit> sunweaver: if the documents stuff doesn?t work, the
> > current trick is to build owncloud with a recent dojo, I can make the one
> > I use available if you wish.
> > 15:59 < sunweaver> taffit: what do you mean by documents stuff? Viewing
> > libreoffice docs and others?
> > 16:00 < taffit> editing odt
> > 16:00 < sunweaver> ah right...
> > 16:00 < sunweaver> and "make the one I use available" means?
> > 16:00 < sunweaver> Will you upload it to wheezy-bpo?
> > 16:00 < taffit> the next dojo version that is currently WIP, not yet
> > uploaded to debian
> > 16:01 < sunweaver> I just saw...
> > 16:01 < taffit> (I use a more recent dojo version to build owncloud, so it
> > works with the dojo version currently in the archive)
> > 16:01 < sunweaver> will that make sense for unstable?
> > 16:02 < taffit> the headache is that the documents app doesn?t work with
> > the more recent dojo version?
> > 16:02 < sunweaver> you are confusing me...
> > 16:02 < sunweaver> I though it is needed for the docuemnt stuff...
> > 16:02 < sunweaver> s/though/thought/
> > 16:02 < taffit> It?s confusing indeed, let me retry to explain
> > 16:05 < taffit> In order to make it work with the dojo version currently
> > in Debian, I *build* the documents app (thus owncloud) with a more recent
> > dojo version. This more recent dojo version is not yet fully functionnal,
> > and can?t be used to make the documents app work :/
> > 16:06 < taffit> An alternative would be to use the minified JavaScript as
> > provided in the tarball, but that seems even uglier to me.
> > 16:07 < sunweaver> taffit: man that's a hack!!!
> > 16:08 < sunweaver> shouldn't we provide something more reproducible?
> > [?]
> > 16:10 < taffit> sunweaver: Yay? I?ve been stuck a long time trying various
> > stuff before being able to make it work. Now that I found this piece of
> > black magic, I?m a bit relieve, but would highly prefer a proper system.
> > 16:11 < taffit> Help would be highly welcome here, I?m not really a
> > JavaScript guy.
> > 16:11 < taffit> s/not really/really not/ ;)
> > 16:14 < sunweaver> taffit: me neither...
> > 16:15 < sunweaver> have you pinged kapouer? Or this new talent on the
> > pkg-javascript list... What's his name...?
> > 16:16 < sunweaver> l3on is his name...
> > 16:18 < sunweaver> taffit: owncloud 6.0.3 has been upload to wheezy-bpo.
> > 16:20  * taffit will get in touch with the pkg-javascript team as soon as
> > I manage to explain the problem ;)
> 
> Yes, I remember that discussion. I hoped that this has been solved
> meanwhile.
> 
> To be double-sure: were saying that the uploaded owncloud package has
> been built with a build-chain that contains software outside of Debian?

Wow, that sounds like quite some hack. Maybe better to go without WebODF 
support at least in wheezy-backports unless stuff required for it is available 
in a quality that allows it to be used for building *and* using the documents 
app. Is upstream aware of this issue?

Thanks,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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