Development for wheezy

[Jonas Meurer]

Hey Brian

On 10/03/2011 Brian Sutherland wrote:
> > > > The problem is, that Zope eggs aren't backwards compatible. Or, the
> > > > other way around, Zope2 releases depend on a very particular version of
> > > > Python Zope eggs. Thus I'm not sure what can be done in order to use
> > > > python-zope.* packages by Zope2 packages.
> > > 
> > > Isn't that "very particular version" precisely the version in a ZTK
> > > release?
> > 
> > Not sure about that.
> > 
> > From what I understand, Zope2.12 depends on loads of Python Zope eggs,
> > and particular versions of them. See the list at
> > http://download.zope.org/Zope2/index/2.12.9/versions.cfg for more
> > information. Several dependencies even have comments about incompatible
> > changes in more recent versions.
> > 
> > With the release of Zope2.13, the list of dependencies has significantly
> > decreased: http://download.zope.org/Zope2/index/2.13.5/versions.cfg
> > Zope2.13 ships with, and depends on Zope Toolkit 1.0.
> > 
> > What are the plans about packaging ZTK for Debian? Do you intend to
> > package major ZTK versions (1.0, 1.1, ...) seperately for Debian? That
> > indeed would ease the packaging work for Zope2 Packages a lot, beginning
> > with Zope2.13.
> 
> The current plan is to only have one version of the ZTK packaged at a
> time. Basically by only uploading the python-zope.* versions that
> correspond to the ZTK version we want to package.
> 
> We may deviate (very slightly) from the ZTK for bugfixes.
> 
> I'm planning to make some time in the near future to prepare packages
> that correspond to the ZTK 1.1.

That would break Zope2.13 packages which depend on the python-zope.*
packages in Debian, as backwards compability is not warranted for
differnt major ZTK versions (e.g. 1.0 and 1.1).

greetings,
 jonas
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