[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Request for help: tcltk-defaults build-rdeps in experimental

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 03:36:57PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi Tclers,
> 
> If I understand it, the current Tcl/Tk plan looks like this:
> 
>  1. Update the default Tcl/Tk version to 8.5
>  2. Change packages explicitly using version 8.4 to use 8.5
>     (or better, to use the default version)
>  3. Drop multi-thread support for 8.4
>  4. Change packages that require a single-threaded tcl to use 8.4
>     (or better, to depend on "tcl-nothreads" or something).
> 
> Part 1 requires a few steps:
> 
>  . Update tcltk-defaults in experimental to 8.5 (done).
>  . Rebuild tcltk-defaults build-rdeps in experimental. (*)
>  . Test like crazy.
>  . Upload the new tcltk-defaults to sid and coordinate a mass-binnmu
>    campaign with the release team.
> 
> Step (*) is being tracked at
> 
>   http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianTclTk/UpgradeDefaultTclTkTo85
> 
> Bugs have been filed for about half of the relevant packages, which is
> a bit slower of a rate than I would like.  Maybe it would be worth
> trying a simple mass bug filing instead of preparing patches as I have
> been so far.
> 
> Help filing and dealing with the remaining bugs, ideas to speed up the
> process, and any other thoughts would also be appreciated.
> 

I can proceed with experimental NMUs and some maintainers uploads as well.
A mass bug filling could help for tracking, but does not accelerate the
process IMHO, NMUs do. And at least for experimental it could be safe
enough.

-- 
Francesco P. Lovergine