[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#775635: chiark-tcl: FTBFS in jessie: build-dependency not installable: tcl8.4-dev

[Sergei Golovan]

Hi Ian!

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 3:37 AM, Ian Jackson
<ijackson at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Anyway, I'm a bit puzzled.  I uploaded a new version of this package
> in November 2014 and it built fine.  tcl8.4-dev seemed to be available
> then.  I deliberately did not update it to build-depend on 8.5 because
> I wanted to avoid perturbing what was in testing by potentially
> introducing depedencies on 8.5-specific aspects of the Tcl ABI.
>
> But according to
>   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=737104
> tcl8.4-dev was removed in January 2014.  How did I and the buildds
> manage to build chiark-tcl 1.1.2 using tcl8.4-dev in November ?
>   https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=chiark-tcl

Tcl/Tk 8.4 is removed from jessie, and not removed from sid yet (a few
packages still depend on it). This means that if you upload a package
to unstable it will happily find tcl8.4-dev but it won't be able to go
to testing.

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan