[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#698674: Bug#698674: Tcl/Tk multiarching

[Sergei Golovan]

Hi Dmitrijs,

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox at debian.org> wrote:
> To address many of FTBFS bugs, I did in the end introduce a compat
> tclConfig.sh tkConfig.sh in non-multiarch locations for Ubuntu, that
> simply call dpkg-architecture and source the multi-arched variant.

I did copy your approach for packages in experimental. They've stuck
in the new queue for some time, but will go to the archive for testing
eventually.

>
> This solved most of the bugs, but there are still some software that
> either hardcoded locations of the default versioned tk/tcl or, in case
> of ruby, instead of source the configuration file, it tries to read in
> & parse the file by itself.

We'll report bugs for these packages (in fact, I hope that most of the
bugs will be spotted during periodic archive rebuild, after the new
Tcl/Tk will hit sid).

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan