Bug#567814: Still happening

[Dominique Belhachemi]

Hi Michael,

thanks for the detailed information. It helps to figure out what is
going wrong.

On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 08:52 -0400, Michael Hanke wrote:

> My system's current state is compliant with this:
> 
> michael at meiner ~ % apt-cache policy vtk-tcl
> vtk-tcl:
>   Installed: 5.2.1-11
>   Candidate: 5.4.2-7
>   Version table:
>      5.4.2-7 0
>         500 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu sid/main Packages
>      5.4.2-6 0
>         500 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu squeeze/main Packages
>  *** 5.2.1-11 0
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      5.0.4-1.1 0
>         500 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu lenny/main Packages
> 

The current version of vtk-tcl for testing is 5.4.2-6 .
You are using an old version of this package. Is there a reason why you
stick with the old version 5.2.1-11?

> Slicer should probably make use of a versioned dependency on vtk-tcl.

Yes, that is one of the reason why I kept this bug report open.
The other thing I was thinking about is to change the name of vtk-tcl
according to the Debian Tcl/Tk policy [0] to tcl8.5-vtk .

Cheers
Dominique

[0]
http://pkg-tcltk.alioth.debian.org/tcltk-policy.html/ch-module_packages.html#s-dependencies