[kwlug-disc] More news on ownCloud

[Ralph Janke]

The problem is that they essentially got rid of MOTUs and even
before they made it far too hard to become one. The result is
that there are not enough people who can maintain such packages (
at least officially).

However, due to PPAs, anybody can just appoint themselves, and shoot
the gap. So, Bob, just put the one from the SuSE building service and
put it into a PPA and announce it to the world and the problem is 
solved.

Just my 2 Canadian (not existing anymore) cents

On 2014-11-08 01:01, Darcy Casselman wrote:
> Technically, those people packaged it for Debian.  Ubuntu just pulls
> in everything from Debian and calls it "universe."
> 
> I ran into this years ago when I was self-hosting Wordpress.  Eclipse
> is something like version 3.8 in the repos when 4.4 is current.  It'd
> be nice if someone was actually maintaining crap in universe, but too
> frequently it just languishes.
> 
> That said, this is The Way It's Always Been.  Ubuntu explicitly
> doesn't maintain universe.  It's right there in the description.
> "Community maintained software, i.e. not officially supported
> software."
> 
> Darcy.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 6:06 PM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Of course, it isn't just ownCloud. Nobody knows how many other
>> vulnerable packages exist in Universe where the packagers have
>> abandoned the software and the developers haven't taken the
>> responsible step of requesting its removal.
>> 
>> This article seems particularly biased against ownCloud. It
>> neglects to mention that the only supported repository is the SUSE
>> build servers (which is what I demonstrated in my presentation), and
>> that other people took it upon themselves to package it for Ubuntu
>> and then failed to maintain it.
>> 
>> --Bob.
>> 
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