Control: forwarded -1 da...@dropbox.com Hi,
On Mon, 17 Dec 2012, Carlos Maddela wrote: > Regardless of what version of the Dropbox daemon you already have > installed, re-installation of this package or running "dropbox update" > will result in the binaries being downloaded from the server > unnecessarily. The pain this causes becomes even more insufferable when > the update script fails to work with your proxy settings. See #696122. > > The installed and available versions should be checked first, before any > downloading, to avoid wasting bandwidth. But upstream is not providing any proper API to do this. Your code relies on the fact that the download URL currently uses a redirection to a versioned URL but I would not deem this reliable in the long run. If Dropobx is interested to provide this feature, it should be easy to provide a new URL where to download the version number of the latest version. I'm ccing my contacts at Dropbox to inform them of this wishlist. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Get the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
