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

[Adam D. Barratt]

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.
> 
> Note that this will imply soon a good bounce of NMUs for experimental.
> If your packages depends directly or indirectly on Tcl/Tk or Expect,
> - just to cite major packages - you have to expect some third-parties
> strange and suspect activities :-) in experimental and possibly 
> bug reportings.
> 
> Note that plans imply dropping multi-thread support for 8.4 and
> moving all stalling packages to use 8.4, as minimum requirement
> or die.

How is this going?  Is there an estimate as to when we might be ready to
look at replacing Tcl 8.3 in unstable?

Regards,

Adam