Bug#714339: zope2.12: Zope2.12 missing important packages in Debian testing for python2.6.

[Arnaud Fontaine]

Hello,

Donovan Baarda <abo at minkirri.apana.org.au> writes:

> Debian  testings python2.6  support  has decayed  to  the point  where
> Zope2.12 can nolonger run.

> At this point I  gave up trying to make it  work with python2.6, since
> there are way too many manual  symlinks I'd need to create. Instead, I
> decided to edit dzhandle to use python2.7 instead.
>
> To   do  this   I   edited  /user/bin/dzhandle,   changing  pyver   in
> zope_packages  for zope2.12,  and edited  /usr/lib/zope2.12/bin/python
> changing the  #! line to  python2.7. After  doing this zope  seemed to
> start OK, but dies at the first http request without logging anything.
>
> It may be that this  bug should be re-assigned to python-pkg-resources
> and python-docutils asking why they have stopped supporting python2.6,
> but I  suspect the answer  will be update  to python2.7, or  drop this
> package from Debian testing.
>
> This leaves me with an unusable zope2.12 instance. What are my options
> for upgrading my content that will run on a Debian testing system?

Indeed, that's  because of python2.6 removal  transition. zope2.12 which
requires  python2.6 (and  will  probably only  work  properly with  this
specific version)  packages has  been removed  from unstable  because of
that.

I uploaded zope2.13 (which works with python2.7) one month ago but it is
still in  NEW[0].  Needless to  say that  it is really  unfortunate that
zope2.12 has  been removed quickly  from unstable but zope2.13  has been
staying for one month in NEW, thus providing no installable/useable Zope
package from the official archive.

In the meantime, you can use zope2.13 packages from there:
http://people.debian.org/~arnau/packages/zope2.13-sandbox_2.13.20-1_all.deb
http://people.debian.org/~arnau/packages/zope2.13_2.13.20-1_amd64.deb

I will request the removal of  zope2.12 package from testing because, as
you pointed out, it is unusable anyway. Sorry about the inconvenience.

Cheers,
-- 
Arnaud Fontaine

[0] http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/zope2.13_2.13.20-1.html