Bug#653802: please remove explicit python2.6 (build)-dependencies
Gael Le Mignot
gael at pilotsystems.net
Sat Jan 21 16:43:15 UTC 2012
Hello,
Zope 2.12 depends on Python 2.6, and as said, porting it to Python 2.7
is not a reasonable option.
Zope 2.13 runs on Python 2.7, but many Zope application (like the most
famous Zope application, the CMS Plone) only work with Zope 2.12.
A newer version of Plone will support Zope 2.13 in the future, but
upgrading complex web sites from a version of Plone to another is often
very painful (incompatible add-on products, complicated migration of the
content, ...).
As a matter of facts, at Pilot Systems (the Free Software service
provider I work at) we were forced to forward-port Python 2.4 from lenny
to squeeze, because we have too many Plone 3/Zope 2.10/Python 2.4
websites to be able to migrate them all to Plone 4 in time for the Lenny
end of life.
If it really is too complicated to keep Python 2.6 around in wheezy for
the package mainteners or the security team, I can understand it, but it
would be very painful for us to not have Python 2.6 in wheezy.
Python 2.6 is the default Python version in squeeze. Would it be
possible, as a general policy and to ease migrations, to always have the
default Python version of n-1 available in n ? The default version of
squeeze available in wheezy, the default version of wheezy available in
the next one, ... ? It would really help a lot for migrations of complex
architectures.
Regards,
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Gaël Le Mignot - gael at pilotsystems.net
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