[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#724816: xotcl: FTBFS when build with Tcl/Tk 8.6 as a default

[Sergei Golovan]

Package: xotcl
Version: 1.6.7-2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream patch

Dear Maintainer,

The xotcl package fails to build from the source currently in case when Tcl/Tk
packages from experimental are installed (with tcltk-defaults 8.6.0+6).

This happens because the Tcl/Tk upstream removed stubs table from libtcl8.6.so
and libtk8.6.so (they are still present in the latest libtcl8.5.so and
libtk8.5.so). This change seems to be intentional, see [1], so I guess the
stubs will not return.

The attached patch (untested in how good the built xotclsh and xowish work)
helps to build with Tcl/Tk 8.6 and doesn't break build with Tcl/Tk 8.5 which
is currently in unstable.

Since moving to 8.6 is our goal for jessie, please, consider fixing this bug.

I think, that the Xotcl upstream should be aware of this.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.1
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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