[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#703421: tk8.5: add multiarch support

[Colin Watson]

Package: tk8.5
Version: 8.5.11-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: multiarch-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertag: multiarch

#698674 (CCed) calls for adding multiarch support to tcl8.5.  Doing this
without also multiarching tk8.5 causes some problems, because build
systems that attempt to detect Tcl/Tk aren't always very clever: for
instance, the Tk extension in ruby1.8 firstly needs to be updated to
look in /usr/lib/$(DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH) in the first place, but even then
falls over because it can't really cope with the idea that Tcl and Tk
might be installed in different directories.  Changing Tcl and Tk
packaging in sync seems like the path of wisdom here.

(Not to mention that multiarching tcl8.5 without any changes to tk8.5 at
all causes the latter to fail to build ...)

I've attached patches for tk8.5 and tcltk-defaults (the latter of which
includes previous changes by Dmitrijs Ledkovs).  I expect you will want
to adjust the Breaks: version in tk8.5-dev.  You probably ought to also
add a similar Breaks: in tcl8.5-dev.

Thanks,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]
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