[Pkg-tcltk-devel] tkinfo: depends on tk8.5 and calls /usr/bin/wish

[Peter]

On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 17:26:10 +0400 Sergei Golovan wrote:
> Package: tkinfo
> Version: 2.8-4
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> We plan to drop alternatives for /usr/bin/wish from tk8.5 (only the tk
package
> will provide symlink /usr/bin/wish) before jessie release.
>
> In your tkinfo package the /usr/bin/tkinfo script calls /usr/bin/wish,
> so it will stop working after the change in tk8.5.
>
> I see two ways of fixing this:
> either replace /usr/bin/wish by /usr/bin/wish8.5 and use tk8.5 in
dependencies,
> or retain /usr/bin/wish and use simple tk in tependencies.
>
> In the latter case, please, test you script using tk package from
experimental,
> as it pulls tk8.6 package as a default (8.6 as a default is planned
for jessie
> too).
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 7.1
> APT prefers proposed-updates
> APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (100,
'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
>

Hi,

I have fixed and tested using the 2nd method.
Currently awaiting a sponsor;
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=759742

Regards,
Peter