Hi Cecil, On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 12:33 AM Cecil Westerhof <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sergei Golovan <[email protected]> writes: > > Sergei, > > Thank you for your very prompt repky. > > > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 11:17 PM Cecil Westerhof <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> It is already in testing. Would it be possible to back-port it? > >> I am willing to help. At the moment I do not have any experience with > >> package maintenance, but I am willing to learn. > > > > I don't think that there's a good reason for backporting Tcl 8.6.10 to > > buster. > > It doesn't add much to the existing 8.6.9. Do you have a specific issue with > > 8.6.9 which can be solved using 8.6.10? > > At the moment the most interesting feature is that it comes with a > newer version of SQLite. (Because of that 8.6.11 which just came out > would be more interesting.)
In Debian, we don't package SQLite bundled with the Tcl distribution. There is a separate package named sqlite3: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/sqlite3 If you need some SQLite features which aren't in buster, you can ask the sqlite3 maintainer about backporting. > > Would it be risky to install it from testing? I don't think you can install sqlite from testing into buster directly. It requires glibc 2.29, and buster has only 2.28 (https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/libsqlite3-0). > > > >> By the way: the debian pages say that 8.6.9 is in testing. Needed to > >> use rmadison to see that it is otherwise. > > I was told that, after I was told that I used the wrong resources. > > > > Actually, you don't have to use rmadison. It is useful if you want to > > query a repository remotely. apt list --all-versions tcl8.6 will show > > you all the versions from all repositories in your sources list, for > > example: > > That is a much better option: thanks. > > > > % apt list --all-versions tcl8.6 > > Listing... Done > > tcl8.6/unstable 8.6.10+dfsg-1 amd64 > > tcl8.6/stable,now 8.6.9+dfsg-2 amd64 [installed,automatic] > > tcl8.6/oldstable 8.6.6+dfsg-1+b1 amd64 > > tcl8.6/oldoldstable 8.6.2+dfsg-2 amd64 > > I get: > tcl8.6/testing 8.6.10+dfsg-1 amd64 > tcl8.6/stable,now 8.6.9+dfsg-2 amd64 [installed,automatic] > > I did not even know that I had testing in my sources.list. ;-) > > > > Another way is to > > go to https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/tcl8.6 and look there. > > That shows the right version. > > -- > Cecil Westerhof > Senior Software Engineer > M [email protected] > > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof -- Sergei Golovan _______________________________________________ Pkg-tcltk-devel mailing list [email protected] https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-tcltk-devel
