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

[Igor Stroh]

martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> [2005.03.09.1352 +0100]:
> 
>>While I think dropping (teh current!) Zope package is a good idea it would
>>be definitely not good for Sarge.  Perhaps we should do the same like Python
>>packages and provide zope2.6, zope2.7 and zopeX.Y while having one zope
>>package which just depends form the *default* zope version.  On the other
>>hand we should make sure that keeping to many versions of Zope would only
>>be confusing for our users ...
> 
> 
> I do not understand why we provided zope2.7 anyway. Why not upgrade
> 2.6 to 2.7? There are not that many differences, are there? Sounds
> to me like 2.7 should have lived in experimental for a while first.
> zope3 will be its own package, that's for sure.

Well, we could try to parse the old config files in /etc/zopectl
and generate zope2.7 ZConfig-aware stuff, but AFAIK there are
also some incompatibilities with e.g. ZClasses which can only be
fixed manually.

Igor