Remove conditional dependencies on non-existant zope-versions due dh_installzope

[Stefan Huehner]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 04:04:45PM +0100, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
> * 2006-12-20 15:35, Stefan Huehner wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> > i've notivced that several zope-packages specify conditional
> > dependencies on i.e. zope2.8 which is not (any longer) in the archive.
> > 
> > Some digging reveals that these deps are written by dh_installzope based
> > on a version-list included in this script and the information from the
> > 'debian/dzprodudct':Zopeversions fields of each package.
> 
> This is true and intentional: all these conditional dependencies (or at
> least the ones written by dh_installzope) are sorted in a reverse order
> so the last major Zope release is always the first of the chain. I see
> no reason to avoid such a dependencies, especially considering that there
> are Debian users which still have zope2.8 or zope2.7 installed and in use
> because of some incompatibilities between their custom products and newer
> Zope releases.
> 
> It is up to the maintainer to manually modify dzproduct files in order
> specify the minimum Zope version required in order to use the product, and
> I don't think that extra conditional dependencies can hurt anything but
> instead they could be really useful for backported (or just old) Zope
> packages.
> 
> > -my @zope_versions = ('2.6', '2.7', '2.8', '2.9', '2.10', '3');
> > +my @zope_versions = ('2.9', '2.10', '3');
> 
> I'm still running zope2.8 from sarge-backports on one of my sarge systems.
> Such a change will render dzhandle not usable after upgrade to etch.

Hi Fabio,

thanks for your explanation.

I'm just trying to find unused, old dependencies throughout the archive.
As these these zope dependencies are intentional and usefull there's of
course no need to remove them.

But i give the question back one more time if the deps for the old
zope2.6 version are still usefull. Scanning through the Packages files i
haven't found a reference of an zope2.6 packages in sarge, or woody.

If these are usefull to someone just say so and i won't bother you
further..

Regards,
Stefan