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

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 01:20:30PM +0200, Hector Romojaro wrote:
> 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
> 

That's known, the nspostgres module needs an update, as well as other modules
too.

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Francesco P. Lovergine