[Pkg-zope-developers] Re: Removal request for old zope packages

[Jeroen van Wolffelaar]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 11:01:32AM +0200, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
> Package: ftp.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> 
> The following source packages should be removed from unstable, since they
> are old versions of Zope server and Zope products and have been superseded
> by new versions:
> 
>   zope (superseded by zope2.7, zope2.8)
>   zopectl (useless package without zope)
>   zope-cmf (superseded by zope-cmf1.4 and zope-cmf1.5)

Why isn't the canonical zope version simply called 'zope' here? If I'd
remove zope, there will be no 'zope' package anymore for people to install.

How about packaging zope simply as being 'zope', and upon new upstream,
simply fix those modules that break? That'll more cleanly ensure there is
only one version of zope in the archive at the same time. You can then use
experimental for the newer not-yet-released zope version, just like for
example gnome is doing it.

So, in short, I'd really really prefer to have just one single zope
version in Debian, rather than multiple.

> The following source packages, instead, have been orphaned by the respective
> maintainers and nobody is taking care of them. They all depends on zope (= 2.6),
> which we are going to remove and are old versions with no upload in the last year
> and half, so they can be removed too.

That are separate things, and I'd like to have those orphaned bugreports
reassigned to ftp.debian.org so I can deal with them.

Thanks,
--Jeroen

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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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