[Pkg-tcltk-devel] gitk: package depends explicitly on tk, wish may be more appropriate

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 03:46:51AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> 
> >> http://pkg-tcltk.alioth.debian.org/tcltk-policy.html/ch-module_packages.html#s-dependencies
> > 
> > Because of Bug#544460, gitk probably needs to depend on tk (>= 8.5.7).
> > Which is unsatisfiable.  *sigh*
> 
> Or rather, following the advice of that page, tk (>= 8.5.7) | wish.
> Which is very likely to pick the wrong version.  Do you see the
> problem here?
> 

If the program depends strictly on non default version, you have to use 
tk8.5 (>= 8.5.7) | tk (>= 8.5.7)


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Francesco P. Lovergine