[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#628436: Please disallow tclsh8.4 as an alternative for the tclsh command

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi again,

Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 05:20:36PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> The weird "8.4.19-4." versions in dpkg --compare-versions expressions
>> are to ensure numbers like 8.4.19-4ubuntu1 and 8.4.19-4+b1 are below
>> and 8.4.19-4.1 is above.
>
> Use 8.4.19-4~

8.4.19-5~ would work.  I'd be happy to make that change; any other
changes needed while at it?

I would really like to be able to rely on tclsh and wish pointing to a
recent (i.e., >= 8.5) tcl/tk on Debian wheezy systems.  If there's
anything I can do to help, please ask.

Thanks,
Jonathan