Bug#632905: gitk requires 'tcl' even when 'tcl8.4' and 'tcl8.5' are installed

2011-07-06 Thread Christophe
Package: gitk Version: 1:1.7.2.5-2 Severity: important Hello, While trying to install the package gitk, I was asked to install the required package tcl and tk. This is not right in my case, because: - I already have both tcl8.4 and tcl8.5 installed, so it should be happy with any of them; -

Bug#632905: gitk requires 'tcl' even when 'tcl8.4' and 'tcl8.5' are installed

2011-07-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi Debian tcl/tk developers, Christophe wrote: While trying to install the package gitk, I was asked to install the required package tcl and tk. This is not right in my case, because: - I already have both tcl8.4 and tcl8.5 installed, so it should be happy with any of them; - this

Bug#632905: gitk requires 'tcl' even when 'tcl8.4' and 'tcl8.5' are installed

2011-07-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
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

Bug#632905: gitk requires 'tcl' even when 'tcl8.4' and 'tcl8.5' are installed

2011-07-06 Thread Christophe CURIS
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

Bug#632905: gitk requires 'tcl' even when 'tcl8.4' and 'tcl8.5' are installed

2011-07-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Christophe CURIS wrote: 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). Ah, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for clarifying. In my