I have a quite urgent problem while polishing the new Python packages: Do we prefer our packages to use tk8.2 or on tk8.0 ?
Python's Tkinter extension module (package python-tk) needs to be linked to libtk. I wonder if I should stay with libtk8.0 or switch to libtk8.2 for the final potato package, as wishlist bug #46705 suggests. A little bit more of half of the Tk packages in potato seem to use tk8.0, while the other half already uses tk8.2. Only three packages would need to be rebuilt after an switch to libtk8.2, so that's possible (python-imaging-tk, python-imaging-sane and sketch). I'm also thinking about providing two Tkinter packages, python-tk and python-tk8.2 (resp python-tk8.0 and python-tk). The problem with this is that the alternative package would have to be built from a pristine source package (tk8.0-dev and tk8.2-dev conflict), and that both packages either would have to conflict with each other, or I had to come up with some custom solution to make them coexist (renaming the module to _tkinter82, or using alternatives). Any opinions ?
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