Bug#582070: vim: please rebuild against tcl-dev from experimental

James Vega jamessan at debian.org
Tue May 18 11:55:18 UTC 2010


On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:44:11AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> To help find problems that arise before making this change for real,
> it would be nice to have most packages depending on tcl-dev built
> against version 8.5 in experimental.  As discussed on
> debian-release[1], this requires sourceful uploads.
> 
> I have been using vim locally with this change for a couple of months
> now, but since I do not make use of the tcl scripting support, that
> does not mean much.  It passes the test suite, at least. ;-)
> 
> Patch is against master but intended to apply to the
> master-experimental (or debian-experimental?) branch.  If you think an
> NMU would be simpler, please let me know and I can try to find a
> sponsor.

I'm currently finishing up the work for an upload to unstable and had
plans to follow that up with an experimental upload for upstream's
pre-releases of 7.3.  As part of that, I'll include the tcl-dev change.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>
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