[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#896085: tk8.5: Time to remove from Debian

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

Control: clone 896085 -2
Control: reassign -2 ftp.debian.org
Control: retitle -2 RM: tk8.5 -- ROQA; obsolete
Control: affects -2 src:tk8.5

* Sergei Golovan <sgolovan at nes.ru> [180809 20:47]:
> Source: tk8.5
> 
> Tcl/Tk 8.5 has reached its end-of-life, so it's time to remove it from Debian.
> Applications which use Tcl/Tk should switch to 8.6 which is available
> for a few years already.

netgen has just moved off tk8.5 in unstable, so the current status is:

Will remove the following packages from unstable:

  libtk8.5 |   8.5.19-3 | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
     tk8.5 |   8.5.19-3 | source, amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
 tk8.5-dev |   8.5.19-3 | amd64, arm64, armel, armhf, hurd-i386, i386, kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386, mips, mips64el, mipsel, ppc64el, s390x
 tk8.5-doc |   8.5.19-3 | all

Maintainer: Debian Tcl/Tk Packagers <pkg-tcltk-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>

------------------- Reason -------------------

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Checking reverse dependencies...
# Broken Depends:
netgen: netgen [hurd-i386 kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386]
oce: oce-draw [kfreebsd-amd64 kfreebsd-i386]

oce is BD-Uninstallable on kfreebsd* for 91 days.
netgen is BD-Uninstallable on hurd, kfreebsd*.

Thanks,
Chris