[Pkg-tcltk-devel] nsf / packaging 2.3.0 and CI tests failing for 2.2.0

[Stefan Sobernig]

Thanks for your swift action!

> Sorry, I forgot about nsf :(

No problem. :)

I wondered: Do you also have a course of actions in mind re the 
following two issues:

>>> Being on it, I noticed that the CI tests fail for the current version
>>> (2.2.0-1) on unstable:
>>>
>>> https://ci.debian.net/packages/n/nsf/
>>>
>>> This is because the unstable CI test runner obtains Tcl 8.7a1, rather
>>> than 8.6.9. Why is this the case? 8.7 is in experimental, not unstable?
>>
>> I see that CI test uses experimental for some reason. I don't know why, I'll
>> investigate this.
> 
> Let me know whether and, if, how I can help.
> 
>>> Background: NSF is runtime-dependent on the major Tcl version. I have
>>> the strong feeling that I should be more careful about the dependencies
>>> then.
>>
>> If NSF requires the Tcl version to match one with which it was built,
>> then it should not depend on tcl or libtcl, but on tcl8.6 or libtcl8.6
>> specifically. 
> 
> Yeah, the dependency should be narrowed. But I wondered how one would
> target 8.7 then on experimental, if at all. Package for experimental,
> and there built against 8.7, I guess.

Thanks, Stefan