On Tue, 06 Mar 2012, Jorge O. Castro wrote: > Why do we even need a wrapper if Dropbox is > accepting responsibility for the user's installation?
Even the upstream package is only a wrapper. They do not provide a package that directly contains their dropboxd daemon. > The user has already made the choice to use Dropbox, they're not going > to care about if the package complies with Debian policy, they assume it > acts like it does on other platforms, that it's zero touch and > autoupdated for them. I'm a user too and I don't agree with this. I do care about Dropbox being properly integrated on my system without violating Debian's policy when that is reasonably possible. Otherwise I would have stopped maintaining this package once upstream started providing Debian packages. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Pre-order a copy of the Debian Administrator's Handbook and help liberate it: http://debian-handbook.info/liberation/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/909488 Title: nautilus-dropbox forbids dropbox's non-free binaries to replace themselves by properly installing dropbox system-wide To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-dropbox/+bug/909488/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
