Bug#394654: Uninstallable due to unmet dep on zope3 (< 3.3)

[Brian Sutherland]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:43:17PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> Brian Sutherland wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 03:12:16PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> >> Package: python2.4-schoolbell
> >> Severity: serious
> >> Version: 1.2.4-2
> >>
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Your package is not installable as it depends on zope3 (< 3.3) while version
> >> 3.3.0-3 of zope3 is in unstable...
> > 
> > Yes, and unfortunately it will remain that way until someone updates
> > schoolbell code to work with zope 3.3.0. That is non-trivial and doesn't
> > seem like it will happen soon. (See bug
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=393244 for more info)
> > 
> > SchoolBell should be removed from testing until the work is done or we
> > decide to remove it from Debian completely.
> 
> What about schooltool as schoolbell won't be removed from testing if it makes
> it's reverse dependencies uninstallable...?

I've just asked for a sponsor to upload a beta version of the next
schooltool release which does not have a dependency on schoolbell:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-zope-developers/2006-October/002468.html

I didn't really want to upload a beta version of schooltool, but it
seems like the least bad option at the moment.

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Brian Sutherland

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