[Pkg-zope-developers] Re: your zope-zms and zope-textindexng2 NMU's

[Matthias Klose]

Luk Claes writes:
> Matthias Klose wrote:
> > Luk,
> > 
> > could you give a rationale for uploading these packages and depending
> > on zope3 instead of a zope2.x version?
> 
> Sorry if this sounds harsh, but it's along the lines of the following:
> 
> The probably wrong idea that there keep coming new zope versions and
> zope versions being dropped without much communication nor prompt action
> to fix RC bugs because of that by the Zope Team itself.
> 
> Sorry again if you take it as an attack of some sort, though I would
> like a better communication (preferably on d-release) about these kind
> of transitions and a rationale to have all these versions of zope...

sorry dude, but next time please give a short notice to the Zope
team.  You seem to misunderstand that zope2.x and zope3 are completely
different things. Did you actually test the packages you did upload?

> > Do these packages don't work anymore with zope2.x?
> 
> Will these zope2.x stay?

yes. as long as plone doesn't work with zope3. and that's already
communicated to d-r.

> > Note that zope3 is built for python2.4, but you did leave the 2.3
> > based (build) dependencies.
> 
> That will hopefully be solved once and for all (or at least a long time
> :-)) by the ongoing python transition.

no, again wrong. zope2.9 is only supported for python2.3. Please
again, ask if something is unclear, don't just upload.

  Matthias