[Pkg-zope-developers] Re: Bug#335488: Removal request for old zope packages

[Jeroen van Wolffelaar]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 09:53:37PM +0100, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
> On dom, 20 nov 2005, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Well, in my opinion having no 'zope' package is a good thing: zope
> development is focused on two branches (zope2.x and zope3) so at least two
> packages will have to coexists. When sarge has been released, zope2.7 was
> the 'default' zope version, and now it could probably removed in favour of
> zope2.8, but there are *a lot* of differences between them (read: the Five
> framework).

Oh, so there are currently no less than *four* versions of zope in
unstable?

I'd very strongly suggest to make that zope2 and zope3 only, while there
surely can be a lot of difference between minor versions, I do not think
it's a good thing to have multiple minor versions in the archive
simultaneously, especially considering zope2 is apparantly obsolete
already. In case there's a security issue in etch, then all of them need
to be fixed after all, so it saves you as maintainers also some effort.

As with the name, ok, I see.
 
> Another point is that often there is no upgrade path between zope major
> releases (between 2.7 and 2.8, for example), and having separated packages
> could be handy in these situations.
> 
> So, as zope maintainer and *user* I really would prefer to not have a 
> 'zope' package but rather install a zopeX one, where X is the release I 
> want to use.
> 
> > So, in short, I'd really really prefer to have just one single zope
> > version in Debian, rather than multiple.
> 
> I think this would be a bad thing for zope users and developers.

But max two then? Only some really big packages have more than two
versions, and even there it's typically too much (kernel, python, ...).
 
> > That are separate things, and I'd like to have those orphaned bugreports
> > reassigned to ftp.debian.org so I can deal with them.
> 
> I'll reassign them to ftp.debian.org.

Thank's a lot!

--Jeroen

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