On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> 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 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): Will there is a /usr/bin/tclsh8.6 like python? > > 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 >
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