Bug#835086: RFP: nextcloud -- self-hosted cloud services

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Xavier" == Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> writes:

    Xavier> Le mardi 20 septembre 2016 à 19:38 +0200, Moritz Mühlenhoff
    Xavier> a écrit :
    >> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 12:02:59PM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
    >> > 
    >> > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist
    >> > 
    >> > * Package name    : nextcloud
    Xavier> [...]
    >> > Given that Nextcloud is an Owncloud fork, with the same people
    >> > behind it, and that Owncloud upstream has always had a
    >> difficult > relationship with distro maintainers, there may be
    >> problems for > packaging that correctly.  > But Nextcloud is
    >> still a highly relevant package for Debian.
    >> 
    >> Nack. It's not an important package if we can't support it
    >> properly.  Let's not repeat the owncloud disaster.

    Xavier> OK, I understand the "official" debian point of view.

I don't think this is an official Debian POV, simply the opinion of some
Debian contributors...  Well, I think it is the official Debian POV that
in order to include a package, we need to be able to support it.
Whether we will or will not be able to support nextcloud is up to
interpretation.

>From a user standpoint, having something that has the functionality of
opencloud/nextcloud is quite important in the enterprise space.
However, we do need to be able to get things to work.

--Sam