Hi, Sergei Golovan wrote:
[...] > in which case the only > symlinks to tclsh and wish would be in the tcl and tk packages. Sounds excellent to me. :) A smooth way to transition would be to remove the alternatives from each tcl8.x and tk8.x package, the goal being to get to a point with alternatives still in place but tclsh-default and wish-default as the only providers. Then the alternatives could be replaced with plain symlinks in the release after. [...] > And I > don't know what to do with extensions which work with any Tcl/Tk > version (so, I don't want them to require 'tcl'), but come with > examples with "#! /usr/bin/tclsh". Could you give an example? [...] > On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> wrote: >> My only worry would be that some package might be using "Depends: >> tcl8.4" and expecting the tclsh command to work, when they should have [...] > It's fairly simple to look through the archive and find if there's > such packages. It's not too late to fix them. antennavis: ok aolserver4: affected? (tests/new/all.tcl at build time) blt: affected (demos) bookview: ok (the corresponding issue for wish probably affects it, though) deal: ok emacspeak: ok epic5: ok exmh: affected (postinst, corresponding issue for wish throughout) gcl: affected (configure at build time) gclcvs: likewise gnat-gps: ok gpsmanshp: ok grass: affected (GRASS_TCLSH) gtkwave: ok hfsutils: ok hping3: ok ibutils: affected (at build time) isdnutils: ok ace: affected (templates/wb26wrproject.mpd) idzebra: affected (at build time) memchan: ok? (uses TEA to find tcl for doc processing at build time) snack: ok sqlite: affected (speedtest.tcl etc) ruby1.8: ok ruby1.9: ok gnu-smalltalk: ok tktable2.9: ok (uses TEA) tcludp: ok (uses TEA) magnus: affected (copier.tcl) mozart: ok mysqltcl: ok (uses TEA) nam: ok (only affects examples installed to doc) ns2: ok (ModelGen is not installed) openmsx: ok otcl: ok [... to be continued ...] Build-time issues can be softened by making tcl8.4-dev depend on tcl during a transition period. (Remaining packages to check: page-crush paraview pcb-common pfm rat rrdtool-tcl sauce tcl tcl8.4-dev tclcsound timidity-interfaces-extra tk707 tk8.4 tkgate ttt tttprove tttview timidity-interfaces-extra vigor vim vkeybd weechat-plugins wzdftpd-mod-tcl xchat-gnome xcircuit xdeview xotcl xotcl-shells libyaz4-dev) Good night, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
