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Maybe I missed it, but why exactly would you use this over the Dropbox .deb available directly from dropbox.com? Seems like the "official" one would have longe

• gitarr 15y ago
  This, also to me, seems a little fishy. I doubt this repo is official. I'd like to see the dropbox staff to comment on this here.
  • derobert 15y ago
    Its an official Debian package of dropbox. Official according to Debian, not necessarily according to Dropbox. Raphaël Hertzog is fairly well-known in the Debian community, and is a Debian developer. Note that its hosted on people.debian.org, which is an official Debian service for hosting Debian-related material from Debian developers. See http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/resources.html#servers-people http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/resou... Also, see the new queue (linked in the blog post too) http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html where you can see Raphaël has uploaded it to the official archive. Or the details here: http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/nautilus-dropbox_0.6.7-1.html http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/nautilus-dropbox_0.6.7-1.ht...
• Auguste 15y ago
  From the article: "[Dropbox] even provide Ubuntu packages that wrap the dropbox client and provide integration with Nautilus. Unfortunately for Debian users, those packages do not work on Debian due to a dependency that can’t be satisfied (because Ubuntu introduced an epoch on the version of their nautilus package that Debian doesn’t have)."