[Pkg-zope-developers] Bug#346330: zodb: Python variants shouldn't conflict

[John V. Belmonte]

Package: zodb
Severity: normal

The zodb package variants (i.e. Python version 2.3, 2.4) should not conflict
with each other, as apps requiring either version need to exist on the same
system.  Presumably this was done because of the utility scripts in /usr/bin.
However, the utilities are not needed to use the ZODB Python library.  At
the very least, the utilities could be split out into a separate package
(which does have conflicting variants) while the library packages themselves
are allowed to coexist.

Perhaps a better solution, given that the utilities have very generic names
(e.g. stats.py) which pollute /usr/bin, is to keep the utility files together
with the library files (i.e. under /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/ZODB,
etc.).  This will also take you off the hook for not having man pages for
everything in /usr/bin.