[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#582211: rrdtool: please rebuild against tcl 8.5 in experimental

[Jonathan Nieder]

Source: rrdtool
Version: 1.4.3-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: pkg-tcltk-devel at alioth.debian.org
Usertags: UpgradeDefaultTclTkTo85

Hi Sebastian, Bernd, and Alex,

To find problems before making this change for real, it would be nice
to have most packages depending on tcl-dev built against version 8.5
in experimental.  As discussed on debian-release[1], this requires
sourceful uploads.

I just tried rebuilding and did not find any problems, but of course
this does not mean much.  I could not find any rrdtool-tcl rdeps in
Debian.  Any tips for where to look for example uses of the
extension, to help make sure it is not broken?

Through the magic of stubs[2], I think the extension should even be
usable with old tcl, even though the dependency specifies tcl8.5.
But I am not suggesting changing that for now.

Patch is against master but intended to apply to experimental.  If
an NMU would be simpler, please let me know and I can try to find a
sponsor.

Thoughts?
Jonathan

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2010/03/msg00303.html
[2] http://www.tcl.tk/doc/howto/stubs.html
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/msg/9cb3066d3dbf5cc8

 debian/changelog |    6 ++++++
 debian/control   |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index ee41b35..6e0332b 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+rrdtool (1.4.3-2) experimental; urgency=low
+
+  * Rebuild against tcl-dev from experimental.
+
+ -- Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder at gmail.com>  Wed, 19 May 2010 01:15:52 -0500
+
 rrdtool (1.4.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream release.
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 07647b2..be02d96 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.38), groff, autotools-dev, gettext, quilt,
  zlib1g-dev, libpng12-dev, libcairo2-dev, libpango1.0-dev, libfreetype6-dev,
  libdbi0-dev,
  libxml2-dev,
- tcl-dev,
+ tcl-dev (>= 8.5),
  perl (>= 5.8.0),
  python-all-dev (>= 2.3.5-10), python-all-dbg (>= 2.3.5-10),
  python-support (>= 0.7.1),
-- 
1.7.1