Re: Latest tcl

[Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>]

Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 02:07:09PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>> Hello Cecil,
>> 
>> > And in testing is the same version as in buster (8.6.9 instead of
>> 
>> this is not right, testing has tcl8.6 version 8.6.10.
>
> Quoting https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/tcltk-defaults
>
> | versions
> |
> |    o-o-stable: 8.6.0+8
> |    oldstable: 8.6.0+9
> |    stable: 8.6.9+1
> |    testing: 8.6.9+1
> |    unstable: 8.6.9+1+nmu1
> |    exp: 8.7.0+0~exp2

You was faster as I. ;-)

I looked at:
    https://manpages.debian.org/testing/tcl/tclsh.1.en.html

and got the same info.


>
>
>
>> > 8.6.10 which is more as a year old, or 8.6.11 which just came out).
>> > 
>> > Would it be possible to get the latest version in testing and from
>> 
>> Please talk to the package maintainers wrt. tcl8.6 in unstable
>> (from where migration to testing is possible):
>> 
>> Debian Tcl/Tk Packagers <pkg-tcltk-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
>> 
>> Once unstable has been updated and it has migrated to testing,
>> it can become a backporting topic (that being said, backporting
>> might still not be done if it’s too intrusive, or if the gain
>> especially compared to the effort it takes makes it not worth).
>> You would have to find someone to maintain the backport as well;
>> ideally, the maintainers of the package would do that, so (again)
>> talk to them.
>
> That in my words:
> } Your message to backports mailinglist has been.
> } Your request is about tcl/tk.  It is better to contact
> } Debian Tcl/Tk Packagers <pkg-tcltk-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
>
> Which is good advice

I will do that.

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof