Hi fellow developers, Since Tcl/Tk 8.5 is currently at its End of Life (see [1]) I would like to start a campaign on removing it from Debian.
There's a wiki page [2] with all binary packages which depend on Tcl/Tk 8.5 directly or indirectly, and with all packages which build-depend on tcl8.5-dev or tk8.5-dev. (Not all of them need patching, it's still a rough list) I'm planning to start filing bugs with suggestions on how to switch to Tcl/Tk 8.6 or may be to the currently default Tcl/Tk (which is now 8.6, but 8.7 is coming soon with fewer incompatibilities with respect to 8.6 than for 8.6 against 8.5). As for now the bugs severity will be 'important', but I plan to bump it to 'serious' before the buster's release. If there are comments or suggestions on what should I do before starting filing the bugs, please tell. [1] https://core.tcl.tk/tcl/wiki?name=Index [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianTclTk/TclTk85Removal Cheers! -- Sergei Golovan
