[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Mission Impossible

[Jonathan Nieder]

Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 03:54:40PM +0300, Sergei Golovan wrote:

>> 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?

I am just a bystander, but this sounds excellent to me.  Is there any
way novices like me can help?  

With unofficial updated packages (or a vcs to build from) and commands
to list the affected packages I would be quite happy to test and try
my hand at writing patches for problems I find.

Jonathan