[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Mission Impossible

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 03:54:40PM +0300, Sergei Golovan wrote:
> >
> > Gcc maintainers should also do their best to remove the expect 8.3 dependency problem
> > which is unacceptable. The 8.3 version is old and unmaintained, there is no
> > justification to still use it. If the testing suite has problems with 8.4+ they
> > have to be solved (hppa? what's the issue? has anyone analyzed it?)
> 
> Unfortunately, there're still bug which prevent using threaded expect
> on hppa. (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.parisc/2478) It
> isn't fixed yet. So, I don't think we can drop Tcl/Tk 8.3 now. May be
> we
> can switch Tcl/Tk 8.4 to non-threaded build and add expect-tcl8.4?
> 

Sorry, did you mean moving tcl-defaults to 8.5 _and_ building without
threads tcl/tk 8.4? Indeed that could be acceptable if done in two
steps: moving defaults to 8.5, ask for binNMU for all packages that
use defaults, uploading a non threaded 8.4 and finally dropping 8.3
after moving all remaining old package to use at least 8.4.
Is it acceptable for you?

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Francesco P. Lovergine