[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Backporting tcl 8.6.10

[Sergei Golovan]

Hi Cecil,

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 11:17 PM Cecil Westerhof <Cecil at decebal.nl> wrote:
>
> It is already in testing. Would it be possible to back-port it?
> I am willing to help. At the moment I do not have any experience with
> package maintenance, but I am willing to learn.

I don't think that there's a good reason for backporting Tcl 8.6.10 to buster.
It doesn't add much to the existing 8.6.9. Do you have a specific issue with
8.6.9 which can be solved using 8.6.10?

>
> By the way: the debian pages say that 8.6.9 is in testing. Needed to
> use rmadison to see that it is otherwise.

Actually, you don't have to use rmadison. It is useful if you want to
query a repository remotely. apt list --all-versions tcl8.6 will show
you all the versions from all repositories in your sources list, for example:

% apt list --all-versions tcl8.6
Listing... Done
tcl8.6/unstable 8.6.10+dfsg-1 amd64
tcl8.6/stable,now 8.6.9+dfsg-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
tcl8.6/oldstable 8.6.6+dfsg-1+b1 amd64
tcl8.6/oldoldstable 8.6.2+dfsg-2 amd64

(I don't have testing in my repositories list, so unstable only).
Another way is to
go to https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/tcl8.6 and look there.

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan