Add python-zope.security-untrustedpython metapackage

(rejecting the nomination, setting back to new. We don't use nominations to handle FFe's, only bugs, and new means that ubuntu-release needs to take a look)

Gediminas, please could you give the rationale for this FFe? I think it's one of the packages needed for schooltool and/or schoolbell, which you want to see in lucid, correct?

Jonathan, Stephane, can you shed further ligth and/or give feedback? thanks!

We wanted to get SchoolTool into Lucid, but of course it is too late now. I have uploaded all the missing packages to the SchoolTool PPA, but there are some changes needed to packages already in Lucid so that we can use them - and there aren't other users of zope packages in Ubuntu. If fixes likes this one don't get accepted I will have to upload the same, fixed package to the PPA, but then what's the point having that package in Ubuntu?

Gediminas, your last comment doesn't help the release team in any way, what needs to be done. maybe you do have a plan, maybe you have given up. but please could you just describe the missing bits, so that the release team has the chance to evaluate the current state?

Zope packages that come from Debian are built using van.pydeb that generates Depends field automatically from requirements specified in setup.py file. Some packages, like zope.browserpage, depend on other packages and also an optional part of it (extra) that has more dependencies. This is specified in setup.py as install_requires="zope.security [untrustedpython]" and van.pydeb translates that to a debian binary package name python-zope.security-untrustedpython. So we need a virtual package named like this.

Hope that's a better explanation of the bug.

Comment #4 talks about SchoolTool PPA but there are packages already in archive that need this to be properly packaged: zope.browserpage (Bug #564985) and zope.app.pagetemplate (Bug #561455).

Gediminas, sorry, but I still can't follow you there (I'm not python expert and especially no zope expert): Neither zope.browserpage nor zope.app.pagetemplate depend on a package called python-zope.security-untrustedpython. (See http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/python-zope.browserpage and http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/python-zope.app.pagetemplate).

Is your triaging not correct, or are the packages found in lucid outdated and would result in the dependencies you mentioned, or am I just missing something?

(side-note: I'd really like to see the best support for schooltool, and am very glad that you work on it!)

The two packages do not depend, but that is a bug, and is explained in the two linked bug reports. They cannot be solved because of the missing package that this issue requests.

Example of a similar package is http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/python-zope.component-zcml . I have copied the solution from it.

Example of a similar problem is missing package python-zope.component-hook (Bug #565011).

Also see the blueprint for other issues that SchoolTool has with Zope packages in Lucid.

This bug was fixed in the package zope.security - 3.7.2-1ubuntu3

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zope.security (3.7.2-1ubuntu3) maverick; urgency=low

  * Upload to Maverick (LP: #542634).
 -- Gediminas Paulauskas <email address hidden> Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:45:05 +0300