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

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 06:48:49PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> 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?
> 

Not very well, I has been busy and never started NMUs, even if most
of the tcl/tk default rdeps build well with 8.5.

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Francesco P. Lovergine