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

[Sergei Golovan]

Hi Mattia,

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at debian.org> wrote:
> 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 I've already took care of it, by asking for the removal of that outdated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.

Thank you :-)

>
>> 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 I'm not convinced you/we should care of outdated ports when considering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)

Well, last time when I asked to remove tcl8.4 and tk8.4 the reason for
retaining them was that there are still binary reverse dependencies.

>
>> 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.

I'll appreciate your help in this. I definitely don't object in removing tcl8.4
and tk8.4 from unstable. Also, I have plans to remove tcl8.5 and tk8.5
as well (after stretch is released and their reverse dependencies are ported
to 8.6).

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan