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 already in the experimental branch, so anyone could try > and break things. > > The changes are (I use Tcl/Tk 8.5 as an example, but the same changes > are applied to 8.4 and 8.6 as well):
would it be possible to drop 8.4 first? > 1. Multiarchifying Tcl/Tk. This means splitting out the libtcl8.5 > package with libraries moved to /usr/lib/<triplet> and with common Tcl > code in /usr/share/tcltk/tcl8.5. The same is for Tk (libtk8.5 is the > new package name). This change doesn't cause any impact on the reverse > dependent packages. Is this just the shared library, or -dev and -dbg packages as well? Will it be possible to cross-build Tcl/Tk extensions? > Also, current stable upstream Tcl/Tk version is 8.6.1, but I wouldn't > like to switch to it now because it'll complicate the process of > 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? Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5242af5b.4080...@debian.org
