Monday 11 August 2008

git-core backport still useless

The versioned depends on tk8.5 has been removed in 1:1.5.6.3-1~bpo40+4, but still, this isn't enough:

$ gitk
/usr/bin/gitk: line 3: /usr/bin/wish8.5: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/gitk: line 3: exec: /usr/bin/wish8.5: cannot execute: No such file or directory


The irony is that you can simply workaround with:

# ln -sf /usr/bin/wish8.4 /usr/bin/wish8.5


But the proper fix would be to apply this patch:


diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 7a1e771..7bd25cd 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ CFLAGS =-g -Wall
STRIP =strip
TEST =test
OPTS =NO_OPENSSL=1 prefix=/usr mandir=/usr/share/man INSTALLDIRS=vendor \
- WITH_P4IMPORT=1 PYTHON_PATH=/usr/bin/python TCLTK_PATH=/usr/bin/wish8.5 \
+ WITH_P4IMPORT=1 PYTHON_PATH=/usr/bin/python TCLTK_PATH=/usr/bin/wish \
THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH=1

ifneq (,$(findstring nostrip,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
--
1.5.6.3

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Could you please stop your ranting / bug reporting about the git backport on your blog and instead either help out or shut up?

Anonymous said...

planet Debian is *NOT* the BTS.