Package: blt Version: 2.4z-9 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer, Looks like blt 2.4z can't work with Tcl/Tk 8.6. An easy way to see this is to run demos included in the blt-demo package. Here are the issues: 1) barchart1.tcl: segfault on exit 2) barchart2.tcl: immediate segfault 3) barchart3.tcl: segfault on mouse interaction with the chart 4) barchart4.tcl: segfault on mouse interaction with the chart 5) barchart5.tcl: segfault on mouse interaction with the chart 6) bgexec1.tcl: segfault on "Stop" button click 7) bitmap.tcl: segfault on any button click and so on. This means that we either have to build blt with Tcl/Tk 8.5 (and make sure that all packages which use blt don't try to use Tcl/Tk 8.6) or we should port blt to Tcl/Tk 8.6. The problem is that the project upstream isn't active (https://sourceforge.net/projects/blt/) Last release in 2003, last activity in CVS in 2010. There is a 2.5 release from another upstream (https://sourceforge.net/projects/wize/files/), but this is another discontinued project, so we can't rely on its development. Moreover, I can't say at the moment if this release really works with Tcl/Tk 8.6. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages blt depends on: ii libc6 2.19-3 ii libtcl8.5 8.5.15-4 ii libtk8.5 8.5.15-4 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-2 blt recommends no packages. Versions of packages blt suggests: ii blt-demo 2.4z-9 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
