Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-29 Thread Sergei Golovan
Hi Matthias, On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 25.09.2013 14:52, schrieb Sergei Golovan: >> >> There are 17 packages which build when 8.5 is the default version but >> fail to build >> after switching to 8.6. Most of them are patchable, though I'm not >> sure if they wil

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Sergei Golovan
Hi Wookey, On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Wookey wrote: > +++ Sergei Golovan [2013-09-25 12:25 +0400]: >> Hi fellow developers, >> >> I would like to introduce a few significant changes into Debian Tcl/Tk >> packages. > > Thank you for doing this work, and for this clear summary. > >> 1. Multia

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Wookey
+++ Sergei Golovan [2013-09-25 12:25 +0400]: > Hi fellow developers, > > I would like to introduce a few significant changes into Debian Tcl/Tk > packages. Thank you for doing this work, and for this clear summary. > 1. Multiarchifying Tcl/Tk. This means splitting out the libtcl8.5 > package wi

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On 25 September 2013 14:52, Sergei Golovan wrote: > There are about 30 packages left which unconditionally depend on > tcl8.4 or tk8.4. > We have to do some research and find how to port them to 8.5 or 8.6. When I have some free time, I occasionally port this or that package. Actually, I'

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Sergei Golovan
Hi Matthias, On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 25.09.2013 10:25, schrieb Sergei Golovan: >> Hi fellow developers, >> >> I would like to introduce a few significant changes into Debian Tcl/Tk >> packages. Some of them have quite significant impact on their reverse >> depe

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Sergei Golovan
Hi Cyril, On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Sergei, > > (replying to the first part only since it strikes me) > > Sergei Golovan (2013-09-25): >> 2. Renaming tcl8.5-dev and tk8.5-dev into libtcl8.5-dev and >> libtk8.5-dev respectively (the latter packages still provide

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Sep 25, 2013 11:40 AM, "Matthias Klose" wrote: > Am 25.09.2013 10:25, schrieb Sergei Golovan: > > removing alternatives a lot. But later I'd like to have another > > transition (switching to 8.6 as default Tcl/Tk version). > Do you have numbers what will break with 8.6? Not many thing

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread YunQiang Su
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 25.09.2013 10:25, schrieb Sergei Golovan: >> Hi fellow developers, >> >> I would like to introduce a few significant changes into Debian Tcl/Tk >> packages. Some of them have quite significant impact on their reverse >> dependencies which

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Niels Thykier
On 2013-09-25 11:38, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> > 3. Renaming tcl-dev and tk-dev into libtcl-dev and libtk-dev. Since >> > too many packages have versioned build-dependencies on tcl-dev or >> > tk-dev, I chose to retain tcl-dev and tk-dev packages (as >> > meta-packages which depend on libtcl-dev an

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 25.09.2013 10:25, schrieb Sergei Golovan: > Hi fellow developers, > > I would like to introduce a few significant changes into Debian Tcl/Tk > packages. Some of them have quite significant impact on their reverse > dependencies which will need a transition, I think. The proposed > changes are a

Re: Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Sergei, (replying to the first part only since it strikes me) Sergei Golovan (2013-09-25): > 2. Renaming tcl8.5-dev and tk8.5-dev into libtcl8.5-dev and > libtk8.5-dev respectively (the latter packages still provide the > former as virtual packages to break as few packages as it could be). >

Upcoming changes in Tcl/Tk packaging

2013-09-25 Thread Sergei Golovan
Hi fellow developers, I would like to introduce a few significant changes into Debian Tcl/Tk packages. Some of them have quite significant impact on their reverse dependencies which will need a transition, I think. The proposed changes are already in the experimental branch, so anyone could try an