Current status of zope / plone in Debian sid ?

[Jonas Meurer]

hey Alastair,

On 27/05/2010 Alastair McKinstry wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What is the current status of zope and plone within Debian sid, and
> plans for squeeze ?
> 
> I'm the original packager, and still labeled uploader, for several
> zope/plone packages.
> These now have RC bugs against them as they depend on obsolete  or
> unavailable zope...
> I no longer use zope in my day job, but will clear the bugs if
> possible to get squeeze released.
> They originally depended on zope3 | zope2.10 | ...  when rebuilt
> ${zope:Depends} now provides
> zope2.12 but it is not present.
> 
> Will zope2.12 become available in squeeze ? what should be done ?

unfortunately packaging zope 2.12 has turned out to be more complicated
than expected. the new buildout-based build system is a pain for
distributions. exact build depends are expected in order to build a
zope2.12 server, minor version numbers must be correct. in order to
ensure this, buildout downloads the dependency python eggs directly from
a zope webpage, where they are provided.

it should be possible to craft a zope2.12_2.12.orig.tar.gz tarball
containing the zope2.12 source and a mirror of all the required eggs.
that way the build process would not depend on network connectivity.
but i didn't manage to build such a tarball yet.

in my eyes, zope2.12 should be packaged in time for debian/squeeze, but
unfortunately i don't have the time to do so within the next weeks.

nobody else stepped up so far, and fabio even explicitly mentioned
several times that he neither has interest nor time to work on zope2.12
packages. thus the status of zope in debian is unclear.

as admin of several systems which provide lots of zope instances i fear
the day when all these instances need to maintained manually - outside
the debian packaging system. but i don't see who should package zope2.12
apart from me, and as already mentioned, i don't have the time right
now.

greetings,
 jonas
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