Packaging question for Zope3 on Ubuntu Lucid

[Alastair McKinstry]

My understanding is that neither zope2 nor zope3 are currently in debian 
unstable/testing,
and barring a major change are unlikely to be ready in time for squeeze. 
Is this correct ?

I have a number of zope/plone packages now under group maintainership 
that have RC bugs
assigned due to not being installable (neither zope2.12 | zope3 being 
present).
While I no longer maintain a plone website directly, I have other 
software that uses zope and
would like to see these in Debian, but probably don't have time to do 
major packaging.

Can someone comment on the detailed state of play and work needed ?

Regards
Alastair

On 2010-06-25 14:36, Julian Satchell wrote:
> I understand that you are the maintainers of the zope3 packages for
> Debian and Ubuntu. I hope you can help me with a question about the best
> way forward for using Zope3 on Lucid.
>
> I am a developer of a production system that is currently running on
> Ubuntu 8.04, which uses Zope3 on one interface. We wish to update to a
> more recent LTS OS version, so that we can continue to support the
> customer for several more years. As this is a production system, we want
> to manage two conflicting priorities - changing the system as little as
> possible, while keeping it patched against newly discovered security
> issues.
>
> Our code is relatively simple; we use page templates and the zope3 core,
> but don't use or need any of the ZMI features.
>
> Whereas there was a well defined zope3 package on 8.04, the situation on
> 10.04 is more complex, and I have not been able to find which packages
> have the core; I have installed everything that seems relevant and
> nothing comes up with runzope or zopectl. Fairly extensive research on
> the web, and reading all the packaged documentation, has not shown a
> recommended package based configuration for using zope3 on 10.04.
>
> Is zope3 basically abandoned on 10.4? Would I be better using
> easy_install (or similar) and maintaining my own tree? I will do this if
> need be, but it increases the amount of maintenance and security work
> that we have to do, which I would obviously much rather have done by the
> professional team at Canonical.
>
> If I have got the wrong mailing list, my apologies for wasting your
> time.
>
> Dr. Julian Satchell
>
>
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Regards,
Alastair

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