[Pkg-tcltk-devel] addition to debian tcl policy

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 09:07:23PM +0300, Alexander Danilov wrote:
> As a longstanding Debian and Tcl/Tk user, I would like to propose some additions to Debian Tcl 
> Policy. As you know package tk8.x contain widget demonstration application, but this application  is 
> located in /usr/share/doc/tk8.5/examples with with others files, which is parts of this application.
> I think this this widget demo must be moved to /usr/bin as widget demo application from perl-tk 
> package. Widget demo from tk8.x package is a tool for Tcl/Tk popularization very useful for newbies. 
>   I remember, when I search for toolkit for my first GUI program, I was very impressed of abilities of
> Tk aspecially after I saw widget demo. So I propose to make widget demo a public application, add it 
> to Debian menu system, move files from /usr/share/doc/tk8.x/examples/ to 
> /usr/share/tcltk/tk8.x/demos/ , and add chapter to Debian Tcl Policy for maintainers of different Tk 
> widgets about how to add new demos. Thats in short.
> 

I see no reason to add something like that to the tcl/tk packaging policy for
debian. Adding or not a bounce of demo apps to /usr/bin is definitively
a maintainer's decision. That could be appropriate or not, specifically
if the demo apps are of general use or less.

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Francesco P. Lovergine