This was a bad decision because the binaries bundle a set of LGPL libraries and nobody from Debian wanted to do the required work to provide the corresponding source code. This was even reported in a Squeeze review in Linux Weekly News.Īt some point, Ivan Borzenkov introduced a dropbox package to Debian but it was not based on the above package, instead it packaged directly the proprietary binaries. 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). They even provide Ubuntu packages that wrap the dropbox client and provide integration with Nautilus. The service is entirely proprietary but the company is Linux friendly and provides Linux binaries ready to use.
Dropbox is a popular service to synchronize files between multiple computers.
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