Development for wheezy

[Brian Sutherland]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 01:38:44PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> On 13/02/2011 Brian Sutherland wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 08:51:46PM +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> > > On 12/02/2011 Brian Sutherland wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > So finally Lenny is released and we can start uploading new versions
> > > > again.
> > > > 
> > > > Is there anyone out there with objectives for Wheezy? Personally, my
> > > > only objectives are:
> > > > 
> > > >     * Update zope.* packages to those in the ZTK 1.1. That claims to
> > > >       drop support for Python 2.4 and add support for Python 2.7:
> > > >       http://docs.zope.org/zopetoolkit/releases/overview-1.1.html
> > > >     * Investigate dh_python2 and our use of it
> > > >     * Upload new versions of supporting packages (mechanize)
> > > >     * Look at differences with Ubuntu and see what makes sense to bring
> > > >       back into Debian.
> > > > 
> > > > Unfortunately I still don't have rights to upload packages directly to
> > > > the archive, so is there anyone out there willing to upload packages I
> > > > prepare?
> > > 
> > > I'm still interested in zope2 packages. Thus I'll try to work with
> > > Michael Mulich on packaging zope2.12/2.13/2.14.
> > 
> > Is there any way that the zope2 packaging can use the python-zope.*
> > packages rather than including their own copies?
> > 
> > Anything the python-zope.* packages can do differently to help that come
> > about?
> 
> Hey Brian,
> 
> The problem is, that Zope eggs aren't backwards compatible. Or, the
> other way around, Zope2 releases depend on a very particular version of
> Python Zope eggs. Thus I'm not sure what can be done in order to use
> python-zope.* packages by Zope2 packages.

Isn't that "very particular version" precisely the version in a ZTK
release?

> We're currently coordinating an IRC meeting about packaging Zope2.12+
> for Debian. Maybe you would like to join?
> 
> I just set up a Wiki page for that meeting:
> http://wiki.debian.org/Zope/Zope2IrcMeeting
> 
> greetings,
>  jonas



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