tkpaint package (Re: Packages to give away)
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Here is the current list of packages that I want to give
> away:
>
> . tkpaint
>
> [1] I will request to remove this package before potato is frozen
> if nobody wants to maintain it.
>
I would suggest to remove tkpaint in its current form immediately.
Or at least move it to contrib. I cannot name other so improperly packaged
program in debian.
1. tkpaint should depend on tk8.0 rather then wish, becouse tkpaint
wouldn't work with pre-8.0 tk.
2. tkpaint should at least suggest, or even reccomend postscript-viewer,
becouse otherwise it woulnd't be able to print pictures.
3. Really, there is no appropriate version of tk to run tkpaint in debian,
becouse tk wuthout dash-patch is not able to save images into
postscript. Also, font handling in tk 8.0 doesn't work with non-Latin1
fonts. So, for people which use some other encoding, tk 8.1 is needed.
4. Current version of tkpaint is packaged from original windows version
rather then from Unix port which features standard autoconf
configuratiion
script and makes use of tcl autoloading mechanism.
See http://www.ice.ru/~vitus/misc/tkpaint.html
Being maintainer of Unix port, I might take this package, but I have to
register as Debian developer
first.
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