2014-11-14 11:43 GMT+02:00 Arnaud Fontaine <ar...@debian.org>: > Barry Warsaw <ba...@debian.org> writes: > > > On Nov 12, 2014, at 05:50 PM, Arnaud Fontaine wrote: > > > >>From upstream point of view, ZODB3 (aka python-zodb in Debian) used to > >>include persistent, BTrees, ZODB and ZEO modules. However, since ZODB3 > >>3.11.0a1, upstream has split it up into 4 distinct packages (one for > >>each module), bump the version to 4.0 and made ZODB3 a "metapackage" > >>depending on all of them. > > > > It looks like Debian still has zodb 3.9.7, right? > > Unfortunately, yes. > > >>As of fixing this RC bug for Jessie: Among the four, only persistent > >>package is currently available in Debian, so there is no way to get rid > >>of ZODB3 (at least for Jessie). Barry: If persistent >= 4.0 Debian > >>package is useful on its own to anyone (and thus should not be removed > >>From testing), then can I add a Conflict on both packages and upload > >>them to fix this bug? > > > > IIRC, I needed to update python-persistent for the Python 3 > zope.component > > transition, as it's a build-dep. There are no other reverse > dependencies that > > I know of. > > > > I think a Conflicts is the right way to handle this for now, given where > we > > are in the Jessie release cycle. Arnaud, thanks for handling this! > > If that's ok with you, I'm going to upload both packages to fix this bug: > > * python-persistent: > Conflicts: python-zodb (<< 3.11.0~) > > * python-zodb: > Conflicts: python-persistent >
Since ZODB3 before the split included persistent, it should provide it: Provides: python-persistent One package that Build-Depends on python-persistent but should be installable with only python-zodb is zope.component. -- Gediminas
