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

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 11:01:39AM +0300, Sergei Golovan wrote:
> >> 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 I'm not convinced you/we should care of outdated ports when considering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.

Where did you ask?
Last years I asked the removal of countless packages, that I'm very
positive there were some ports package still depending on it and thus
got broken by the removal.  Nobody ever spoke up for those, nor
complained.

Besides, 8.5 and 8.6 is built everwhere, if any single package didn't
manage to build against a newer tcl/tk is not an excuse to keep 8.4
around for so long…

> I definitely don't object in removing tcl8.4 and tk8.4 from unstable.

So are you fine if I file a RoQA for those?  (or will send a ROM?)

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