Packaging question for Zope3 on Ubuntu Lucid

[Julian Satchell]

I understand that you are the maintainers of the zope3 packages for
Debian and Ubuntu. I hope you can help me with a question about the best
way forward for using Zope3 on Lucid.

I am a developer of a production system that is currently running on
Ubuntu 8.04, which uses Zope3 on one interface. We wish to update to a
more recent LTS OS version, so that we can continue to support the
customer for several more years. As this is a production system, we want
to manage two conflicting priorities - changing the system as little as
possible, while keeping it patched against newly discovered security
issues. 

Our code is relatively simple; we use page templates and the zope3 core,
but don't use or need any of the ZMI features. 

Whereas there was a well defined zope3 package on 8.04, the situation on
10.04 is more complex, and I have not been able to find which packages
have the core; I have installed everything that seems relevant and
nothing comes up with runzope or zopectl. Fairly extensive research on
the web, and reading all the packaged documentation, has not shown a
recommended package based configuration for using zope3 on 10.04.

Is zope3 basically abandoned on 10.4? Would I be better using
easy_install (or similar) and maintaining my own tree? I will do this if
need be, but it increases the amount of maintenance and security work
that we have to do, which I would obviously much rather have done by the
professional team at Canonical.

If I have got the wrong mailing list, my apologies for wasting your
time.

Dr. Julian Satchell



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