Re: State of tcl/tk for woody ?
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 05:12:31PM +0100, Jérôme Marant <jerome.marant@free.fr> spake forth:
> But the way, why are there so many versions of tcl/tk in Debian ? Are all
> these versions really usefull or is this just a matter of not recompiling
> applications against the new libs ?
Upstream has a habit of making big changes between minor versions. Many
packages that work with one of the three versions I maintain will not work
with one or all of the remaining versions; either API changes in libtcl,
changes in the interpreter, etc. Trust me, I'd like to thin them out a
little too, but the picture's not looking good for the foreseeable future
:).
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