[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Time to migrate to 8.5 in unstable?

Sergei Golovan sgolovan at nes.ru
Sat Feb 5 09:48:39 UTC 2011


On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Francesco P. Lovergine
<frankie at debian.org> wrote:
> As for latest plan we should move default Tcl/Tk to 8.5 and remove
> multi-threads support in 8.4. Due to current long latencies in tcl-related
> packages I would start ASAP in order to be ready for wheezy :).

Agreed.

> Sergei? Within the period of the next 1.5-2 ys probably 8.6 could
> become the default and 8.4 dropped, but I would be pro-active
> without waiting too long.

Well :) If we'll wait for 8.6 release we may left with 8.4 in wheezy,
which is unacceptable. So, it's better to move to 8.5 now (just after
squeeze is released).

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan



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