Hi Brian, This is great news!
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Brian Sutherland<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Just an update on this situation, so far what's happened: > > * All the zope.* packages from zope.publisher downwards are now in > Debian unstable and will be released in Karmic. > * The old, outdated, monolithic zope3 package has been marked for > removal from Debian and Ubuntu. Nobody has complained about this > yet! > > So that means the major obstacle to getting schooltool into Ubuntu has > been cleared away and that you have a solid set of base dependencies to > build on. Nice! > So what's the way forward? I've discussed this with some Ubuntu > developers and it seems that there are 2 things to do: > > * See which other zope.* dependencies you require that can be > uploaded to Debian. I'll have a look at the SchoolTool PPA and try > come up with a list of packages appropriate for Debian in the next week > or so. The pkg-zope team will then maintain them directly in Debian. > > * Reduce the sheer number of packages schooltool depends on by: > - Using better packaging techniques to avoid empty namespace > packages like python-hurry > - Take advantage of the great zope3 dependency refactoring > that's been going on to rationalize the dependency structure > of schooltool > - Use van.pydep rather than vanguardistas.pydebdep (as you > currently do). We'll (not Brian) need to do this, right? > * For you (or one of the schooltool devs) to get upload rights for > a limited set of packages directly to Ubuntu. We thought of 2 > ways: > - you upload packages prepared in the PPA by SchoolTool > developers directly to Ubuntu > - one of the senior schooltool developers who's likely to be > around a while uploads the packages. > > I'm told that Daniel Holbach (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DanielHolbach) > is probably the best person to contact to organize this. I'll talk to Gediminas Paulauskas about this. Getting into Karmic+1 is absolute top priority after the Karmic release, so we'll do whatever refactoring is necessary in November & December. --Tom _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
