On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:13:04AM +0100, Fabio Tranchitella wrote: > Il giorno mar, 25-01-2005 alle 15:33 -0700, Joel Aelwyn ha scritto: > > So I have relatively recently taken over a Zope package, and while it is > > now in (basically) good shape, there are a couple of technical points I > > want to clear up to make sure I'm doing it right, since what I can find on > > the mailing list archives isn't entirely conclusive. > > I think the right place for your email is the mailing list of zope > debian packages developers [1], but the list seems to be almost dead.
well.... only important news pass through :-) > > 1) Is it proper (assuming that the package works under both Zope 2.6 and > > Zope 2.7) to Depend on 'zope | zope2.7'? It seems like it should be, but > > I wanted to double-check. > > IMHO the dependency should be "zope2.7 | zope", so the newer version > will be automatically installed if needed. > whatever. Anyway zope2.7 provides zope > > 2) Usage of debconf templates. The debconf manual (and the maintainer) > > seem to think that every package which uses the shared Zope restart > > template needs to provide an identical copy. > > My opinion on this issue is that for zope packages you do not use the > shared template, just read its value in debian/postinst. For this > reason, you haven't (and you shouldn't) provide the template: you'll > never ask the user for that question so providing the template have > really no sense, this just create additional work for the translators. actually, there was a discussion some time ago , which I try to summarize: there should exist a 'zope-common' package, containing: the zope-policy, zope-admin-guide, AND all the scripts and debconf templates to restart zope and/or zope2.7 when a new zope package is installed. > maintainer scripts. I know that Luca De Vitis started working on it, > and I tried to mail him but I haven't received any answer so far. > His last upload to zope package is on 2004, February. Does anyone > know if he is still around? Unfortunately the main mantainer of zope 2.6, namely Luca, is mostly MIA So the above problem was never fully addressed a. -- Andrea Mennucc "Ukn ow,Ifina llyfixe dmysp acebar.ohwh atthef"
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