[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Tcl/Tk plans for Squeeze

[Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt]

"Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie at debian.org> writes:
> Ok, we found an agreement about a tentative plan for Tcl/Tk. I'm
> submitting this plan to you in order to understand if there is the time
> and will to allow this transition in squeeze.
>
> At the very first stage, we will submit a tcltk-default with 8.5 in
> *experimental* in order to allow all default dependent packages to use 8.5
> (ideally by just binNMU).

binNMUs won't work. As the packages are built in an unstable
environment, they will pick up the default from unstable.

> The 8.4 should be then built without multi-threading, and all packages
> currently depending on tcl/expect 8.3 should instead use 8.4 as
> such. All that could be done in experimental and by NMUs.

That would be good, as it doesn't interfere with other transitions and
thus everyone can do their work without stepping on someone else's toes :-)

> If all key packages had no problems on all archs, we could
> consider uploading onto sid and then dropping 8.3. The staging area is
> the only way to avoid unexpected breakages in sid ATM. Of course, we 
> could start with staging with or without RMs agreement, but the final
> acceptance for sid will depend on freezing time and RM team decisions.
> In the meantime we will do our home work in experimental.

Yes, please do so. I don't see a problem to just do this transition in
unstable after it was prepared in edxerimental.

Marc
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