[Pkg-salt-team] Backporting of python-zmq

[Julian Taylor]

On 04.07.2013 15:48, Joe Healy wrote:
> Hi Julian,
> 
> We have discussed backporting of python-zmq based on libzmq3 to
> squeeze and wheezy before. Since then, I have prepared and used a
> backported version of the package you uploaded to unstable.
> 
> In terms of backporting, the most important change I had to make was
> to disable the python 3 binary packages.

you should only have to do that for squeeze, wheezy should have
everything in place for python3.
A Cython backport is technically required for a full rebuild.
I'll ping the maintainer about it.

> 
> From memory, you were not terribly interested in maintaining backports
> of python-zmq. Given this, do you approve me (and Martin Krafft
> (madduck)) uploading these packages to backports?

I am interested in backporting, but I don't mind if you do it. But I'd
appreciate if you run the diff by me, possibly also add it to a branch
in svn repository.