Re: why does python-tk depend on tkstep?

[Federico Di Gregorio <fog@pcamb6.irfmn.mnegri.it>]

Hi (the tagged reply in mutt is wonderfull...),

On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 02:02:30AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Your shlibs file looks like this:
> 
> libtkstep4.2    1       tkstep4.2
> libtk4.2        1       tkstep4.2
> 
> I suppose that when dpkg-shlibdeps sees something linked on libtk4.2, it
> looks at this shlibs file, and makes it link to tkstep4.2.
> 
> The fix is probably to change the shlibs file to:
> 
> libtkstep4.2    1       tkstep4.2
> libtk4.2        1       tk4.2
> 
> (Btw, this is analagous to what the xaw replacement libraries nextaw, xaw3d,
> and xaw95 do in their shlibs files to prevent bogus dependancies on them.)

Thank you very much Joey. I don't know why I put the two tkstep4.2
lines in the file. I did it a lot of time ago and then I forgot about.
I'll fix that with the next version.
 

On Tue, Oct 20, 1998 at 12:34:04PM +0200, Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
[snip]
> 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.

I will upload new versions of all my packages saturnday or sunday.
I will also upload a new tkstep with the problem fixed.
Ciao,
Federico