Package: gitk
Version: 1:1.5.6.5-1
Severity: normal
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Hello,
gitk should really always use the default tk in Debian, otherwise users
are going to end up with more than one tk installed, which should be
best avoided.
Comments:
* there is a "tk" pacakge, so "Depends: tk (>= 8.4)" would solve the
concerns in #456423 that one can't just have tk8.5 installed.
* however, if one uses "tk" as a dependency, the she-bang line should
be /usr/bin/wish, which as mentioned in #438662 could point to 8.3,
because the alternatives system is used.
(This is one of the reasons why using alternatives for interpreters
is a bad idea: it prevents the dependencies at packaging level
reflect at the filesystem level, and shit happens. CC'ing the Tcl/Tk
maintainers in case they want to express their reasons for doing
this.)
* so, I suggest either that the dependency is brought back to "tk8.4",
and be sorry for the guy in #456423, or add a bit of shell magic to
gitk to use the first of "wish8.4" and "wish8.5" that is available.
I don't think a Dependency on "tk8.5" is acceptable, because we have
default versions of stuff for a reason.
Cheers,
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Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org
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