[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#734837: tk8.4: Time to remove from testing

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 10:43:49AM +0300, Sergei Golovan wrote:
> Unfortunately, there're still reverse dependencies in the archive.

Not really.

> For example,
> mozart on kfreebsd-i386

I've already took care of it, by asking for the removal of that outdated
binary.

> and some other unofficial ports still depend on tcl8.4 and tk8.4.

I'm not convinced you/we should care of outdated ports when considering
removal of very old package like this.  Besides, can you even
effectively check for rdeps on all of ports.debian.org?  (note that
ftpmasters processing removals don't check ports either)

> So, it's a bit more complicated than just file an RM bugreport.

I can probably help with that, I've got some experience at handling
deprecation and removals of packages from the archive, but this one
feels straightforward to me.

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