ITP persistent and merging zope and python teams?

[Barry Warsaw]

AFAICT, the persistent library is not yet packaged for Debian.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/persistent/4.0.8

I've search for existing packages and wnpp/ITP and not found anything.  I
think this is also required as a build dependency for zope.component.  It's
possible I've missed it though, so I'm going to file an ITP and work on the
packaging, but please do let me know if it's already available.

I'm aware of python-zope.component-persistentregistry, but that's a
metapackage and not specifically related to the above.

I plan on naming the source package `python-persistent` since claiming
`persistent` seems a bit presumptuous.  I'm going to put it under DPMT.

As a side question, I wonder if it still makes sense to continue to segregate
the ZTK packages under pkg-zope-developers.  Why not fold all/most/some of
those packages into DPMT?  They're both under svn so it should be pretty easy
to do, and the DPMT seems to be the much more active team than p-z-d.
Thoughts?

Cheers,
-Barry