Package: gitk
Severity: wishlist
The current version of gitk depends on version >= 8.4 of tk.
Unfortunately, this ancient version was not compiled with fontconfig
support and, as a result, it does not recognize some more readable fonts
that I have on my system (which are a lot more desireable than the
defaults that gitk sets).
I already compiled a private copy of gitk with such dependencies, it
works quite well and I would love to see the dependencies flexibilized
this way for the main distribution (actually, in all the platforms where
install git-*).
Let me just state that I do understand the desire to keep the dependency
as version-agnostic as possible on the system, but given that the
current depencency forcibly pulls in t{k,cl}8.4 without giving the user
an option that is already packaged, I think that such a change would be
welcome for some users already.
BTW, if desired, I can provide a patch (even though it would be mostly
trivial and changing, say, at most 4 lines of the debian/control file).
Thank you very much, Rogério.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-rc5-00237-g9a3cbe3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gitk depends on:
ii git-core 1:1.6.6.1-1 fast, scalable, distributed revisi
pn tk <none> (no description available)
gitk recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gitk suggests:
pn git-doc <none> (no description available)
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http://rb.doesntexist.org : Packages for LaTeX : algorithms.berlios.de
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