[Pkg-zope-developers] Re: Zope 2.7 and Plone 2 status

[Damien Genet]

Hi,


Le jeu 15/07/2004 =E0 23:36, Andreas Tille a =E9crit :
> Could you please be a little bit more verbose *which* zope product
> is so outdated.  "Every" means "*" or whatever.

Here are some raw statistics I collected :

package name			deb ver.	upstream ver.	report
------------			--------	-------------	------
zope				2.6.4		2.6.4
zope-backtalk			0.3		0.3
zope-book			20040401
zope-btreefolder2		0.5.0		1.0.1
zope-callprofiler		1.4		1.4
zope-cmf			1.3.3		1.4.5		http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=
=3D194865
zope-cmfcalendar		1.3.3		1.4.5
zope-cmfcore			1.3.3		1.4.5
zope-cmfdefault			1.3.3		1.4.5
zope-cmfforum			1.0		1.0
zope-cmfldap			2.0		2.0
zope-cmfpgforum			1.0.0b		1.0.0rc2
zope-cmfphoto			0.3		0.5.0
zope-cmfphotoalbum		0.3		0.5.0
zope-cmfplone			1.0.5		2.0.3		http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?=
bug=3D239834
zope-cmftopic			1.3.3		1.4.5=09
zope-cmfworkflow		0.4.2
zopectl				0.3.4
zope-devguide			20040104
zope-devguide-example		20040104
zope-docfindereverywhere	0.4.1		0.5.0
zope-dtmlcalendar		1.0.15
zope-emarket			0.2.0a4		0.2.0a4
zope-epoz			0.7.4		0.8.0
zope-externaleditor		0.7		0.8
zope-extfile			1.2.0		1.4.2
zope-exuserfolder		0.20.0		0.20.0
zope-formulator			1.6.2		1.6.2
zope-kinterbasdbda		1.0		2.0
zope-ldap			1.1.0		1.1.0
zope-ldapuserfolder		2.2		2.3
zope-localizer			1.0.1		1.1.0a3
zope-lockablefolder		0.1.0		0.1.0
zope-loginmanager		0.8.8b1		0.8.8b1
zope-mysqlda			2.0.8		2.0.8
zope-parsedxml			1.3.1		1.4
zope-photo			1.2.3		1.2.3
zope-popyda			2.0.8		2.0.8
zope-psycopgda			1.1.14		1.1.14
zope-rdfgrabber			0.4		0.4=09
zope-replacesupport		1.0.1		1.0.2
zope-sqlrelayda			0.34.3		0.34.3
zope-testcase			0.8.6		0.9.0
zope-textindexng2		2.0.7		2.0.8
zope-tinytable			0b2		0b2
zope-tinytableplus		0.9		0.9
zope-translationservice		0.3		0.4		http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport=
.cgi?bug=3D235057
zope-ttwtype			0.9.1		1.0rc2
zope-verbosesecurity		0.5		0.6
zope-xmlmethods			1.0.0	=09
zope-zms			2.1.2.7		2.2-beta
zope-znavigator			2.02		2.02
zope-zpatterns			0.4.3p2		0.4.3p2
zope-zshell			1.60		1.60
zope-zwiki			0.18.0		0.32.0		http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?b=
ug=3D253577
zope2.7				2.7.0		2.7.1

I included release candidates, when they were advertised by upstream
before others.

Even if many packages are just a minor version behind, some others are
really outdated, and this sums to about half the packages not being up
to date.

> I admit that this would some kind of hard job if really every product
> would be outdated, but I guess it is not so hard as you said.  Unfortunat=
ely
> Zope product developers do not always notify people about new versions.

This may sound a bit too hard, but isn't it the maintainer work to keep
in touch with upstream ?


Thanks,

--=20
Dam