Packaging of Zope 2.12 in Debian

[Gael Le Mignot]

Hello Jonas!

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 13:38:39 +0100, you wrote: 

 > We agreed that an IRC meeting would be good to discuss the details about
 > Zope2 Debian packages. I suggested either the 18th/19th of March or the
 > 15th/16th of April to him. He didn't respond yet.

Sounds a good idea to me.

 > Maybe you and your friend could attent to this IRC meeting as well, and
 > we manage to join our efforts in packaging Zope2.12+ for Debian.

 > I just created a Wiki page for that Meeting:
 > http://wiki.debian.org/Zope/Zope2IrcMeeting

 > Feel free to modify it and add your toughts.

I added myself to it. Just to be sure, do you mean CEST or CET for March ?

 > There's a major problem with Zope eggs packaged as seperate packages:
 > most of them aren't backwards-compatible. Thus an upgrade to more recent
 > upstream version might break the Zope2.12 packages in case the API of
 > the egg/module changed.

 > On the other hand maintaining a huge monolitic Zope2.12 tarball with all
 > required eggs/dependencies inside is a horror-scenario regarding
 > security aspects. The Debian security team hates packages which maintain
 > local copies of libraries/modules/eggs/whatever for a good reason.

 > So I'm not sure about the best solution for Zope2.12 Debian packages.
 > Unfortunately I don't know enough details about the packaged eggs. Maybe
 > some of them actually provide backwards compability and thus can be used
 > by a Zope2.12 package, while others don't.

Yes, that's indeed a major problem, we'll have to discuss that.

Regards,

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