[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#703421: Tcl/Tk multiarching

[Matthias Klose]

Some comments for the Tcl/Tk multiarch changes, now that the first bits are in
Ubuntu 13.04 (raring).

 - The move of tclConfig.sh tkConfig.sh to the multiarch location did
   cause some build breakage. In the end we do provide now compat
   symlinks in /usr/lib to fix the build breakage. This works for
   most cases, but not if a specific version of Tcl/Tk is targeted,
   e.g. itcl, itk.

   So a test rebuild in Debian might be needed before this is done.

 - From my point of view, the multiarch view is still incomplete.
   You should be able to install an embedded interpreter of the
   foreign arch while keeping the interpreter of the native arch
   installed on the system. E.g. on amd64, install vim for i386,
   and still have the amd64 tclsh installed. Maybe vim is not
   a good use case, but e.g. installing an amd64 gdb with the
   embedded python interpreter on i386 works while keeping the
   python interpreter on amd64.

   For Tcl/Tk this would involve to move the required library
   (text/script) files to the tcllib8.5 package too.
   Tracking this in Ubuntu in LP: #1164937.

Matthias