[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Mission Impossible

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 01:20:01PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> 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
> 

I would also use experimental as staging area for having trials and
NMUs because we could have bad results on very basic packages and exotic
archs. So the very basic step is changing defaults *now* on experimental. 
Something that can be done safely. Sergei?

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Francesco P. Lovergine