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Re: Removing Tcl/Tk 8.4 from Debian



On Thu, Jan  9, 2014 at 14:13:04 +0400, Sergei Golovan wrote:

> Hi, release team!
> 
> I would like to ask some advise in what to do else to get Tcl/Tk 8.4
> removed from Debian for jessie. The current situation is the
> following:
> 
> 1) There are only 3 packages left in unstable which require tcl8.4 or
> tk8.4 for building (all of them do that because the fixed packages
> FTBFS on some architectures):
>     idzebra 2.0.44-3.1 is fine in jessie and FTBFS for hurd-i386 on
> sid. As far as I can see from the build logs, it always FTBFS on
> hurd-i386 if its tests are run. All successful builds were without
> tests enabled.
>     mozart 1.4.0-8.1 removed from testing and FTBFS for quite a few
> architectures in sid. The Tcl/Tk related fix hardly can be blamed for
> that, see [1].
>     mpqc 2.3.1-16 FTBFS for ia64 architecture, but anyway is promoted to jessie.
> 
> So, for now, there's no packages in jessie which require tcl8.4 or
> tk8.4 as hard dependencies (there are a few soft dependencies and
> dependencies with alternatives) except mpqc for ia64.
> 
> Is it sufficient to remove tcl8.4 and tk8.4 from jessie? Or may be
> even from sid?
> 
Yes, please get them removed from sid.

Cheers,
Julien

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