[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] owncloud-client backport

[Gaudenz Steinlin]

Hi

Sandro Knauß <bugs at sandroknauss.de> writes:

> Am Dienstag, 8. September 2015, 08:55:21 schrieb Gaudenz Steinlin:
>> Sandro Knauß <bugs at sandroknauss.de> writes:
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > first of all i really would like to see owncloud-client in backports, too!
>> > But I don't want to end up again in the situation, that backports ends up
>> > with an outdated version, like it was happing in the past. On the other
>> > side you say, you use the oCC from backports, so let's give it another
>> > try.
>> 
>> I don't know what exactly happened to the owncloud-client backport
>> during the wheezy cycle. I just remember the issues with the owncloud
>> backport. But I think that the client is a much simpler package than
>> owncloud itself. But if the client evolves in a way that it needs many
>> dependencies to be backported it might become problematic.
>
>> > Qt < 5.4.2 triggers:
>> >  - Bug#781368: No trayicon under GNOME Shell
>> 
>> I don't know if we can do much against that. But AFAIK tray icons don't
>> exist anymore in GNOME shell. But I might misunderstand this. At least
>> when testing the package it showed notifications under GNOME.
>
> well for sure you need have an icon to click on - if it is named tray icon in 
> the GNOME word i don't know. But I also knowfrom upstrema bugtracker that 
> gnome people with qt < 5.4 still complaining about this issue.
>
> Well thats why i recommend to built with qt4 till we have qt 5.4.2 in 
> backports. That is actually the reason, why the versioninstable is actually 
> built with qt4. The change is not really big.

OK I changed the build-depends to QT4 and tested the resulting build.
This works and has an icon in the message tray. This also has icons in
the systray for Cinamon and MATE. The original QT 5 based build did not
show the icon on Cinamon and MATE and had an empty (without the cloud)
icon on GNOME. So there is definitely a problem with the QT 5 build. The
bug only showed up after logging in, just stopping owncloud, installing
the QT 5 build and starting owncloud again did not cause the bug.

>
>> I already based this on your git repository on Alioth. If you add me to
>> the pkg-owncloud project I will push my branch for review. My branch is
>> currently named jessie-backports. If you prefer another name, just let
>> me know.
>
> Me has no admin rights to add you to the alioth team - Do you already sent 
> your join request to alioth?

Someone now added me to the team, thanks. I pushed my jessie-backports
branch and you can have a look at it.

Gaudenz