[Pkg-zope-developers] Re: zope-debhelper and zope-common

[Hervé Cauwelier]

A Mennucc wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:08:43AM +0100, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
>
>>I've started packaging zope-debhelper and zope-common for Debian, 
> 
> I am interested in those different packaging;
> Mathias and me have worked out a packaging that he is introducing in Ub=
untu
> and I may introduce in sarge (as soon as I have time to deeply test it)
> 
> I think you should upload zope-common and zope-debhelper in Debian
> *now* : if they get accepted, the next zope2.7 that I will upload
> will depend on them, and use them

Ho yes! yes! yes! please!

signed, a Debian user not responsible for the consequences of such a 
change. ;-)

>>but I think they will be introduced only after sarge because they
>>require a different layout for zope2.7 package and for all zope
>>products.
> 
> Sarge's freeze  is like "calende greche" : it is always coming by the
> end of the month .... in a different calendar

I think you mean "calendes grecques". I didn't know this expression is 
know in English!

> I dont think we should wait for after-sarge : the lack of zope-common
> introduces a severe bug, by which , if you install zope and zope2.7 
> and then purge zope, you  lose the user and group 'zope', and zope2.7
> stops working

As Sarge is meant to be the next stable, and that Debian stable is 
mainly targeting servers, having improved and easier to maintain 
packages seems natural. And since zope2.7 is not in Woody, there's no 
real transition to take into account. Unstable users know they have to 
bear with such changes, Testing a bit less but hey...

-- 
Hervé Cauwelier