[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Request for help: tcltk-defaults build-rdeps in experimental

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi again,

Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 03:36:57PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>>  1. Update the default Tcl/Tk version to 8.5
>>  2. Change packages explicitly using version 8.4 to use 8.5
>>     (or better, to use the default version)
>>  3. Drop multi-thread support for 8.4
>>  4. Change packages that require a single-threaded tcl to use 8.4
>>     (or better, to depend on "tcl-nothreads" or something).
>> 
>> Part 1 requires a few steps:
>> 
>>  . Update tcltk-defaults in experimental to 8.5 (done).
>>  . Rebuild tcltk-defaults build-rdeps in experimental. (*)
>>  . Test like crazy.
>>  . Upload the new tcltk-defaults to sid and coordinate a mass-binnmu
>>    campaign with the release team.
[...]
> I can proceed with experimental NMUs and some maintainers uploads as well.
> A mass bug filling could help for tracking, but does not accelerate the
> process IMHO, NMUs do. And at least for experimental it could be safe
> enough.

Sorry to let so much time pass with no action.  I also think a round of
NMUs changing Build-Depends to tk-dev (>= 8.5), tcl-dev (>= 8.5) in
experimental would be the fastest thing.  Of course some builds would
fail, but that is fine; imho we do not have enough manpower to
proactively find all problems like I was trying to before.

Thoughts?  And how can I help?  I would be willing to claim a handful
of packages to upload to mentors.debian.net with that change, for
example.

Jonathan