zope-formulator with no user base in Debian?

[Jens W. Klein]

Hi, fyi:

zope-formulator is incompatible with zope2.10. Plone 3.x depends on
zope2.10. The concept of Formulator is outdated and it seems no one is
willig to make it work in Zope 2.10. 

best regards 

Jens

Am Donnerstag, den 17.07.2008, 11:13 +0200 schrieb Andreas Tille:
> Hi,
> 
> bug #455945 says:
> 
>    The following packages instead are incompatible with the last Plone
>    release, unmaintained upstream and with no user base in Debian:
> 
>    ...
>    zope-formulator
> 
> Well, I don't know whether the zope-formulator is incompatible with
> the last plone release but unmaintained upstream is not that drastically
> (there is a later upstream release than the latest Debian version I
> obtained from snapshot.debian.net which targets at Zope 2.10 compatibility)
> and there is at least one user in Debian (me).  So one user is not really
> much but "no user base" is wrong. ;-))
> 
> Well, I did not noticed the removal because I'm quite inactive in the
> pkg-zope team - so I will blame nobody (except myself) for my problem
> that zope-formulator will probably be not available in Lenny.
> 
> What would you regard a reasonable way to do?  I have lintian clean
> packages of the latest zope-formulator version on my local disc.  Do
> you think it would make sense to ask release manager to reintroduce?
> Or do you want to see this package really out of Debian and I should
> go with the local package?
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>             Andreas.
> 
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Jens Klein
Software Architect
BlueDynamics Alliance
http://bluedynamics.com