Bug#820101: jessie-pu: package nam/1.15-3

[Herbert Fortes (hpfn) <brpacotes@gmail.com>]

Hi Adam,

> > It calls Tcl_InitStubs and Tk_InitStubs functions. The
> > manpage[0][1] says:
> > 
> > "...Zero means that versions newer than version are also 
> > acceptable as long as they have the same 
> > major version number as version."
> [...]
> > I did a 'apt-get source nam', 'apt-get build-dep nam'. Without
> > changing anything, 'debuild'. The 'dpkg -I' inform libtcl8.6
> > and libtk8.6. But, after install, when I try to run 'nam',
> > I receive a 'segmentation fault'.
> 
> The patch appears to have been added as part of:
> 
> nam (1.15~RC4-4) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * Patch to restrict version depend on tk (Closes: #620093)
>      Whether it work should be test: init_tcltk_with_stub.diff.
> [...]
>   * debian/rules:
>        - add -ltclstub8.x and -ltkstub8.x to link against stub.
> 
>  -- YunQiang Su <wzssyqa@gmail.com>  Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:50:10 +0800
> 
> Reading through the log for that bug, I suspect this change:
> 
> tclcl (1.20~RC3-4) unstable; urgency=low
> 
>   * Patch Makefile.in to remove "-exact" require tcl and tk.
> 
> made the stub changes unnecessary. The debian/rules changes also seem to
> have been reverted at some point, without being explicitly mentioned (it
> may be part of "Rewrite build system with CMake" a few months later).
> 
> All in all, I'm still not entirely sure that the changes are completely
> correct, but on the assumption that there have been no issues since they
> were applied in unstable, please go ahead and we'll keep our fingers
> crossed. :-|
> 

Thanks for the aditional information.

I asked for a sponsor to do the upload.

Thanks again Adam.


regards,
-- 
Herbert Parentes Fortes Neto (hpfn)