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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