Bug#653802: Fwd: removal of python2.6 (and removal of zope2.12 for wheezy)

[Gael Le Mignot]

Hello,

For Zope itself,  there is indeed the issue of  Plone.  Plone 4 requires
Zope  2.12 and  Python 2.6,  and being  able to  run Plone  4  on Debian
servers  easily was  the main  reason for  which we  (at  Pilot Systems)
invested time and energy to have Zope packages, so it would be quite sad
to end up not being able to.

More generally, I would really like to have the "default" Python version
of release N  to be available on release N+1. 

Python 2.6 is the default Python version on Squeeze, so we have like 100
of servers using  Python 2.6 to run various  applications.  Since Python
2.7  is   not  available  in   Squeeze,  we  can't   migrate/test  those
applications  to Python  2.7  in Squeeze,  and  if Python  2.6 isn't  in
Wheezy, we won't be  able to migrate the OS to Wheezy  and then the apps
to Python 2.7, which makes the transition quite painful.

I'm  not sure  how  common this  is,  but I'll  guess  than all  hosting
providers who  use massively Python are  in a similar  situation than we
are, and  would really like to have  Python 2.6 in Wheezy  to smooth the
transition (and more generally, the  default version of Python in Debian
release N to still be available in release N-1).

Regards,

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