[Pkg-zope-developers] Re: [Zope] A few questions...

[A Mennucc]

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On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:13:04AM +0100, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
> Il giorno mar, 25-01-2005 alle 15:33 -0700, Joel Aelwyn ha scritto:
> > So I have relatively recently taken over a Zope package, and while it is
> > now in (basically) good shape, there are a couple of technical points I
> > want to clear up to make sure I'm doing it right, since what I can find=
 on
> > the mailing list archives isn't entirely conclusive.
>=20
> I think the right place for your email is the mailing list of zope
> debian packages developers [1], but the list seems to be almost dead.

well.... only important news pass through  :-)
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> > 1) Is it proper (assuming that the package works under both Zope 2.6 and
> >    Zope 2.7) to Depend on 'zope | zope2.7'? It seems like it should be,=
 but
> >    I wanted to double-check.
>=20
> IMHO the dependency should be "zope2.7 | zope", so the newer version
> will be automatically installed if needed.
>=20

whatever. Anyway zope2.7 provides zope

> > 2) Usage of debconf templates. The debconf manual (and the maintainer)
> >    seem to think that every package which uses the shared Zope restart
> >    template needs to provide an identical copy.=20
>=20
> My opinion on this issue is that for zope packages you do not use the
> shared template, just read its value in debian/postinst. For this
> reason, you haven't (and you shouldn't) provide the template: you'll
> never ask the user for that question so providing the template have
> really no sense, this just create additional work for the translators.

actually, there was a discussion some time ago , which I try to summarize:
there should exist a 'zope-common' package, containing: the zope-policy,
zope-admin-guide, AND all the scripts and debconf templates to=20
restart zope and/or zope2.7 when a new zope package  is installed.
=20

> maintainer scripts. I know that Luca De Vitis started working on it,=20
> and I tried to mail him but I haven't received any answer so far.=20
> His last upload to zope package is on 2004, February. Does anyone=20
> know if he is still around?


Unfortunately the main mantainer of zope 2.6, namely Luca, is mostly MIA

So the above problem was never fully addressed

a.


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Andrea Mennucc
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