Hi Ian!
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 3:37 AM, Ian Jackson
wrote:
>
> Anyway, I'm a bit puzzled. I uploaded a new version of this package
> in November 2014 and it built fine. tcl8.4-dev seemed to be available
> then. I deliberately did not update it to build-depend on 8.5 because
> I wanted to avoid perturbing what was in testing by potentially
> introducing depedencies on 8.5-specific aspects of the Tcl ABI.
>
> But according to
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737104
> tcl8.4-dev was removed in January 2014. How did I and the buildds
> manage to build chiark-tcl 1.1.2 using tcl8.4-dev in November ?
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=chiark-tcl
Tcl/Tk 8.4 is removed from jessie, and not removed from sid yet (a few
packages still depend on it). This means that if you upload a package
to unstable it will happily find tcl8.4-dev but it won't be able to go
to testing.
Cheers!
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Sergei Golovan
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