Hi Ian! On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 3:37 AM, Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: > > Anyway, I'm a bit puzzled. I uploaded a new version of this package > in November 2014 and it built fine. tcl8.4-dev seemed to be available > then. I deliberately did not update it to build-depend on 8.5 because > I wanted to avoid perturbing what was in testing by potentially > introducing depedencies on 8.5-specific aspects of the Tcl ABI. > > But according to > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737104 > tcl8.4-dev was removed in January 2014. How did I and the buildds > manage to build chiark-tcl 1.1.2 using tcl8.4-dev in November ? > https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=chiark-tcl
Tcl/Tk 8.4 is removed from jessie, and not removed from sid yet (a few packages still depend on it). This means that if you upload a package to unstable it will happily find tcl8.4-dev but it won't be able to go to testing. Cheers! -- Sergei Golovan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
