heads up: tcl and tk 8.5

Marcela Maslanova mmaslano at redhat.com
Mon Jan 7 11:34:41 UTC 2008



Alex Lancaster wrote:
>>>>>> "KF" == Kevin Fenzi  writes:
>>>>>>             
>
> KF> On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:01:20 +0100
> KF> mmaslano at redhat.com (Marcela Maslanova) wrote:
>
>   
>> New tcl and tk 8.5 was released. I'd like to push it to rawhide as
>>     
>>> soon as possible. The list of dependent packages could be found in
>>> this draft:
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MarcelaMaslanova/Draft/tcl8.5 The
>>> maintainers of dependent packages should fix them according to
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Tcl
>>>       
>
> KF> Can you possibly mail directly at least the primary maintainers of
> KF> these packages and let them know when you are going to push the
> KF> update?
>
> KF> Many of them might not see this post...
>
> Marcela,
>
> Can you also post to fedora-devel-announce to get wider distribution?
> Judging by the high number of broken deps still in rawhide caused by
> this tcl soname bump, I suspect that many maintainers may not have
> seen this announcement.  Many only subscribe to the -announce list and
> not devel-list to avoid the high traffic here.  (These kind of
> distro-wide soname bumps that affect many packages should always be
> posted to fedora-announce).
>
> Also, I've noticed that several packages don't rebuild with the new
> Tcl and have build failures with the following:
>
> /usr/include/tcl-private/generic/tclPort.h:27:28: error: tclUnixPort.h: No such file or directory
>
> (one example full log is here:
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=326763&name=build.log)
>
> is there any easy fix?
>
> Alex
>
>   
Today I rebuilt tcl with patches, which fixes this issue as I hope. 
Please let me know, if your problem persists.




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