[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#987397: Bug#987397: tcltls: build conflict with openssl requires removal of too many packages

[Andrej Shadura]

Hi,

On Fri, 23 Apr 2021, at 12:13, Sergei Golovan wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 1:07 PM Andrej Shadura <andrewsh at debian.org> wrote:
> > > Currently, tcltls conflicts with openssl because it tries to generate
> > > DH pair on the fly,
> > > which sometimes fails due to lack of entropy on buildds. Though it
> > > looks like the
> > > newest tcltls allows one to supply option --enable-deterministic and
> > > get the same result.
> > >
> > > I'll fix this bug after the bullseye's release. Thank you for pointing it out.
> >
> > Thanks. Would you be okay if I went ahead with a team upload with the patch I attached if the release team grant me an unblock?

> No, it wouldn't. The point is that there's no need of any patch. An
> extra option in debian/rules should be sufficient. I'll try it today
> and commit the fix to salsa if it'll work. Or if it won't then I'll
> accept your patch.

The question is whether the release team will be willing to unblock. Graham Inggs mentioned on IRC that if the fix doesn't change the binary packages, it should be unblockable, but I’m not sure about a bigger change.

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Cheers,
  Andrej