Hi, release team, I'd like to post an update on the current state of Tcl/Tk packages and the nearest plans of the Tcl/Tk team (see [1] and [2] for the previous threads).
So, there are 4 major tasks currently: 1) Removing Tcl/Tk 8.4 from Debian. 2) Dropping /usr/bin/tclsh and /usr/bin/wish alternatives support and use symlinks to the current default shells (8.5 for now and 8.6 in the nearest future). 3) Multiarchifying Tcl/Tk. 4) Updating the default Tcl/Tk to 8.6. Task 1: Currently, there's no packages in testing which would block the removal of Tcl/Tk 8.4 and there's one package in unstable (mozart) which depends on Tcl/Tk 8.4 for a few architectures (it FTBFS, so the newer source package can't produce the fixed binary one, see [3]). I've reported a removal bug [4], and hopefully the tcl8.4 and tk8.4 packages will be removed soon at least from testing. Also, see [5] for a list of affected packages. Task 2: There are 8 packages left which use /usr/bin/tclsh or /usr/bin/wish and depend on versioned Tcl/Tk packages, so they will stop working if the unversioned ones (tcl, tk) aren't installed (see [6]). Tasks 3 and 4: There are 13 packages left which FTBFS after multiarchifying or updating the default Tcl/Tk to 8.6 (see [7]), for most of them patches exist. Tasks 2, 3 and 4 require updating the Debian Tcl/Tk policy. Its new version is included into the tcl-doc package in experimental). What I'd like to do now is to upload the changed Tcl/Tk packages into unstable (they are in experimental for a quite long time, so I believe that most packaging bugs are fixed by now). After that I'll bump severity for the unfixed yet bugs and'll help to fix them. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/09/msg00500.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/10/msg00239.html [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=728441 [4] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737104 [5] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=remove-tcltk8.4;[email protected] [6] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=tcltk-alternatives;[email protected] [7] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=tcltk8.6;[email protected] Cheers! -- Sergei Golovan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAOq2pXGAAx+sucK1NLTd1VoXLOdcSfi8dWrijp9o1CTr41F=1...@mail.gmail.com
