[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#734837: tk8.4: Time to remove from testing

[Sergei Golovan]

On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 2:30 PM, Mattia Rizzolo <mattia at debian.org> wrote:
>
> Where did you ask?

About 3 years ago, some time after this bug was reported and tcl8.4 and tk8.4
has been removed from testing.

> Last years I asked the removal of countless packages, that I'm very
> positive there were some ports package still depending on it and thus
> got broken by the removal.  Nobody ever spoke up for those, nor
> complained.

Okay, good to hear that.

>
> Besides, 8.5 and 8.6 is built everwhere, if any single package didn't
> manage to build against a newer tcl/tk is not an excuse to keep 8.4
> around for so long…
>
>> I definitely don't object in removing tcl8.4 and tk8.4 from unstable.
>
> So are you fine if I file a RoQA for those?  (or will send a ROM?)

I'll send a ROM. I think it's nicer to do that.

Cheers!
-- 
Sergei Golovan