[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#753307: broken by tcl/tk 8.6

[Sergei Golovan]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Sergei Golovan <sgolovan at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi Julian.
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Julian Taylor
> <jtaylor.debian at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> on the ubuntu-motu mailing list (search skycat) there is a patch that
>> fixes this issue but it will still segfault on start due to itcl3
>> needing tcl 8.5. I have no fix for that.
>
> I'll try to port itcl3 and itk3 to tcl/tk8.6, or may be package itcl4.
> It'll require to look into their reverse dependencies (e.g. ftools-pow
> and ftools-fv).

As far as I can tell, itcl3 and itk3 work with tcl/tk8.6. Even if they currently
depend on tcl8.5, if you run wish8.6 and do "package require Itcl" or
"package require Itk",
everything works fine (I've tried to run tests, supplied with itcl3
and itk3, and
demos in iwidgets4).

On the other hand, blt, which is currently built with tk8.6, doesn't
work at all. The demos from
blt-demo package crashed for me every time (I'm going to file a
bugreport). So, I guess, we
have to decide what to do with blt first.

By the way, blt 2.4z-8 (conservatively built with tcl8.5) works fine
(but obviously doesn't load into wish8.6).

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan