[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#601591: Bug#601591: Bug#601591: Bug#601591: tk8.4: Should not recommend xterm

Konstantin Khomoutov flatworm at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Oct 27 18:16:19 UTC 2010


On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:51:15 +0400
Sergei Golovan <sgolovan at nes.ru> wrote:

> > The origin of the problem is that foo2zjs, part of the print task,
> > recommends tk8.4 for its printer configuration tool. tk8.4 itself
> > is not very invasive, but xterm is. Maybe you could use replace
> > xterm with xvt (X terminal-emulator similar to xterm, but smaller),
> > which only depends on libx11.
> 
> Well, it really doesn't matter which terminal to use. xvt seems fine
> to me. How do you think, is this bug important enough to be fixed
> during freeze?
> 
> On the other hand, I'm not so sure now if we really need "wish" entry
> in the menu. May be it's better to remove it completely (not now but
> after a squeeze release though).
How about removing the menu entry and adding tkcon to Suggests?

P.S.
I wonder why something in squeeze does recommend tk8.4?
I thought Squeeze would have 8.5 by default.





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