On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, Vincent Cheng wrote:
> I admit that I have no idea whether this will work, and if it is safe to
> package Dropbox like this. However, since it seems that Dropbox is unlikely
> to ever make it into the Debian archives if it still contained pre-compiled
> libraries, this was the only alternative I had. It looks like this won't
> work either, if Dropbox crashes and refuses to work properly.
>
> I'm now out of ideas; is there any other way of packaging Dropbox? Or should
> I simply give up on ever seeing Dropbox in the repositories again?
Fix the legal problems and have Dropbox provide the sources for the
binaries provided by Dropbox.
Cheers,
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