Re: why does python-tk depend on tkstep?
On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 10:09:08PM -0700, John Lapeyre wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, Shaleh wrote:
>
> shaleh>Subject kinda says it all. Why does the python-tk package
> shaleh>need tkstep? I know that when I compiled it by hand this was
> shaleh>not a requirement.
>
> I saw a message from the maintainer a while go that claimed it was
> a bug in dpkg-shlibdeps ( more likely in tkstep ). I think the tkstep
> maintainer told him to change the dependency to libtk8 | tkstep, or some
> such.
Indeed. tkstep8.0 provides tk8.0, therefore IMHO python-tk should only
depend on tk8.0. Note that this is already in the BTS as "Bug#28048:
python-tk depends on tkstep8.0".
The problem was that I have installed both tk8.0 and tkstep8.0, and
for some reason, dpkg-shlibdebs decides to record a dependency on
tkstep8.0, not on tk8.0.
I will correct this with a new upload in the next few days, by
including the dependency in the control file manually.
Gregor
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