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[Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brian,

This is great news!

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Brian Sutherland<brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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    * The old, outdated, monolithic zope3 package has been marked for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