Hi Jonathan, From the feedback in your two mails, I would tend to think that the problem is only in Debian squeeze in which I am stuck for now (I did not find courage to switch to testing at the time squeeze froze).
In my case: - tcl is *not* a meta-package - actually, it is even an older version of tcl than the version provided in the package "tcl8.4" ! I confirm you that the tcl/tk version is, as expected, not an issue for gitk: I choose the hacky-way to work around this, and downloaded manually the deb, modified the depends to include tk8.4 | tk8.5, and here it goes! By the way, tcl8.6 does not exist in squeeze, but that's probably ok as it is still a beta (and not to be released soon if I believe the discussions on the mailing list...); On the other hand 8.5.10 got released a few weeks ago so it might also be an opportunity to upgrade the tcl8.5 package still in 8.5.8? Regards, Christophe. On Wednesday 06 July 2011 23:55, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > forcemerge 550299 632905 > quit > > Hi, > > Christophe wrote: > > While trying to install the package "gitk", I was asked to install the > > required package "tcl" and "tk". > > I think the gitk package is using those metapackages correctly. I've > sent a message to check by asking the Debian tcl/tk maintainers. > > The report as written doesn't explain how this affects the package's > usefulness --- if the default version of "tk" is different from the > version you prefer, that's unfortunate, but it would not break git: > > apt-get install tcl tk > update-alternatives --config tclsh > update-alternatives --config wish > > So it is not clear to me yet what the purpose of the proposed change > is. Still, thanks for reporting it, and I'd be glad to help in any > way I can. > > Regards, > Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
