[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bits from the Release Team: Scheduling, transitions, how to help

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 12:17 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 06:48:49PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 14:52 +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 09:57:12AM +0200, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > > >   * Tcl/Tk 8.4/8.5
> > > >      Tcl 8.3 will be replaced by newer versions. This transition is
> > > >      currently staged in experimental.
[...]
> > How is this going?  Is there an estimate as to when we might be ready to
> > look at replacing Tcl 8.3 in unstable?
> > 
> 
> Not very well, I has been busy and never started NMUs, even if most
> of the tcl/tk default rdeps build well with 8.5.

fwiw, a potentially naive count ("dak rm -Rn tcl8.3 tk8.3") only lists
nine packages as currently depending on 8.3.

Regards,

Adam