[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Tcl 8.6 as default in "jessie": XOTcl to NSF transition

[Hector Romojaro]

Hi Stefan and all,

El mié, 23-04-2014 a las 10:00 +0200, Stefan Sobernig escribió:
> Hi Sergei,
> 
> >>> Dotlrn, however, whilst being the last version released upstream, is
> >>> still very old (2.5.0, based on openacs-core 5.5.1). Are you sure it
> >>> supports NSF?
> >>
> >>
> >> Actually, no. I am not up to speed when it comes to openacs/dotlrn these
> >> days. So this just confirms that the xotcl package is to be continued (for a
> >> little while longer).
> >
> > As far as I can see, xotcl is scheduled for removal from jessie
> > because of #724816. And its
> > removal will in turn drop openacs and dotlrn from jessie also.
> 
> Thanks for the reminder! What is the time window for fixing this?

xotcl is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2014-05-18[1]. However,
dotlrn and openacs are scheduled for removal on 2014-05-13 because of
this[2] aolserver4-nspostgres RC bug (CC'ing frankie regarding that).

[1] http://packages.qa.debian.org/x/xotcl.html
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=743074

Cheers,

Héctor