Bug#888682: hamlib uses deprecated Tcl 8.5
Hi Ervin,
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 5:10 PM, Ervin Hegedüs <airween@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sergei,
>
> thanks for your feedback,
>
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 07:12:26PM +0300, Sergei Golovan wrote:
>> Source: hamlib
>> Version: 3.1-7
>> Severity: important
>> Tags: patch
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> Since Tcl 8.5 has reached its end-of-life we are planning to remove
>> it from Debian before the buster's release. So please, switch the
>> libhamlib2-tcl package to a modern Tcl version which is 8.6 (or better
>> to a default one which should work for future 8.7 as well).
>
> I've made the new package, hope that the upload and accept flow
> will done soon.
Any update on that? If you have the package, I could do the upload for you.
>
> Note, that I didn't found 8.7 from Tcl in SID.
It's in experimental at the moment since there's only a beta release available.
>
>> I've attached a proposed NMU which 1) replaces tcl8.5-dev by tcl-dev
>> in build dependencies and corrects the --with-tcl in debian/rules
>> (/usr/lib/tclConfig.sh includes a DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH hack, so don't bother
>> about deleting it from debian/rules configure call); 2) moves the
>> Tcl package to /usr/lib/tcltk/hamlib3.1 as it can be loaded to different
>> Tcl shells (I haven't tested it thoroughly). If you don't mind, I could do
>> the upload.
>
> and many thanks for your help - I've replaced the affected
> settings in files you sent, checked the results (after I built
> and installed the packages). Everything has worked as well.
Good to know.
Cheers!
--
Sergei Golovan
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