Bug#888682: hamlib uses deprecated Tcl 8.5
Hi Sergei,
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 02:27:18PM +0300, Sergei Golovan wrote:
> 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.
yes - I've tried to upload, but I don't have permission to this
package.
You can find it here:
http://ha2os.ha5kkc.com/Hamlib/
> >
> > 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.
sure,
> >> 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.
thanks,
73, Ervin
HA2OS
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