Follow up "The future of Zope{2,3} and Plone in Debian and Ubuntu"

[Fabio Tranchitella]

Hello,

* 2009-07-05 18:53, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
> What about refactoring all our way to package (I espacially mean Plone
> 3.3+) in order to fit with that "declaration"?
>
> Why creating a package embedding it's own Python/Zope/Whatever would be a
> BIIIIIIGG problem?

It is not possible: in Debian we try to reuse libraries and packages
already available in the system. This allows us to fix security issues only
in one place, without patching a lot of applications.

What does it happen if Plone ships with version X of Python, another
package with version Y and another one with Z? In case of a security upload
for fixing a security bug, we'd have to patch three different versions of
Python, and that's a lot of work.

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Fabio Tranchitella                         http://www.kobold.it
Free Software Developer and Consultant     http://www.tranchitella.it
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