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 longer term support.

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)."

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.

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/resou...

Also, see the new queue (linked in the blog post too) 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.ht...