Package: znc-tcl
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Currently, libznc has a dependency against libtcl8.5.
As far as znc is concerned:
- TCL 8.6 support in modtcl.cpp has been added in 2010
- there is no B/C compatiblity issues in TCL script
- some TCL can't be used in 8.6 as they use {*} expansion
I've checked the release calendar of TCL 8.6:
- June 25, 2008 in alpha, December 23, 2008 in beta
- a long period of incubation to polish the new version
- December 20, 2012 the first stable version release
Thse elements led me think it would be valuable for the znc-tcl package
on Sid to use libtcl8.6.
References:
- http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/311 (calendar)
- https://sourceforge.net/p/znc/mailman/message/24221194/ (commits with TCL
8.6)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
