Gerrit Pape wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 01:31:56PM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote: >>> Hi, please see http://bugs.debian.org/503113 >> I should have reopened that bug probably. With tk8.4 remaining unremovable >> for >> gitk, and r-core-dev depending on tk8.5, and me wanting to use the newer >> version, I still suggest to somehow change the dependency. How about >> tk(>=8.4)|tk8.5 ? > > Hmm, the report above suggest that you can remove tk8.4: > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 06:56:48PM +0200, Adeodato Sim? wrote: >> 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. > > Was that wrong advice?
In my mind - yes. $ LANG=C sudo dpkg --purge tk8.4 tk dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of tk: gitk depends on tk (>= 8.4). dpkg: error processing tk (--purge): dependency problems - not removing dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of tk8.4: tk depends on tk8.4 (>= 8.4.16-2). dpkg: error processing tk8.4 (--purge): dependency problems - not removing Errors were encountered while processing: tk tk8.4 You may argue that the problem is with the tk package, which should also allow newer version of tk. For the moment it does not: $ apt-cache show tk | grep Depends Depends: tcl (= 8.4.16-2), tk8.4 (>= 8.4.16-2) This is probably intentional, since it grants a guarantee for the availability of a well-known version of tk. I personally find the explicit dependency on tcl wrong, though and would prefer for the tk package something like Depends: tk8.4 (>= 8.4.16-2) | tk8.5 (>= 8.5.7-1) I am CCing the tk maintainers mailing list, who have more of an oversight on the issue than me. Cheers, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
