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dropbox: 16.4.29 -> 16.4.30 #21564

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Motivation for this change

dropbox: 16.4.29 -> 16.4.30

Apologies in advance if this is seen as politicizing something which shouldn't be (or if this is not the right platform for doing so) - I will naturally edit the text here if it is not in line with what the project wants, but otherwise I'll simply copy paste in this text every time I do a new PR for dropbox.

Dropbox on NixOS is a royal pain in the rear due to:

  1. Forced upgrades where anything but the latest version will simply stop working
  2. No changelog when new versions are released

This user hostile approach by Dropbox means that dropbox stops working on NixOS from the time a new version is released and until the nixpkgs repository is updated.

Please consider using one (or more) of these free and open source alternatives:

Note: This is not in any way an endorsement of any of the projects mentioned above.

Things done
  • Tested using sandboxing
    (nix.useSandbox on NixOS,
    or option build-use-sandbox in nix.conf
    on non-NixOS)
  • Built on platform(s)
    • NixOS
    • macOS
    • Linux
  • Tested compilation of all pkgs that depend on this change using nix-shell -p nox --run "nox-review wip"
  • Tested execution of all binary files (usually in ./result/bin/)
  • Fits CONTRIBUTING.md.

Cc: @ttuegel @aristidb @domenkozar @edolstra

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@grahamc grahamc merged commit 31dc66a into NixOS:master Jan 1, 2017
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grahamc commented Jan 1, 2017

Backported in 64a1302

@peterhoeg peterhoeg deleted the u/dropbox branch January 1, 2017 16:21
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ttuegel commented Jan 2, 2017

I don't think this is inappropriately political; it's a matter of fact that Dropbox is not very friendly to its Linux users. The most obvious sign is their refusal to make release notes or change logs beyond the single sentence they copy with every release: "The Dropbox client is regularly updated..."

Please consider using one (or more) of these free and open source alternatives:

Nextcloud is at nextcloud.com, not .org.

Is there another term we could use besides "alternative"? These aren't alternatives per se because they don't interact with the Dropbox service. I have no doubt that some of our Nixpkgs/Dropbox users are people whose organizations use Dropbox and who lack the political capital to change that. 😉

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How about this:

There are several free and open source self-hosted alternatives to the Dropbox service. Please consider using one (or more) of these instead:

whose organizations use Dropbox and who lack the political capital to change that

Absolutely. The best we can do in this case is inform them.

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ttuegel commented Jan 3, 2017

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