Debian Bug report logs - #1100484
git-gui: git gui does not start because of wrong Tcl version

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Package: git-gui; Maintainer for git-gui is Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]>; Source for git-gui is src:git (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Michael Ott <[email protected]>

Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:27:01 UTC

Severity: important

Found in version git/1:2.48.0~rc1+next.20250101-1

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Report forwarded to [email protected], Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]>:
Bug#1100484; Package git-gui. (Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:27:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to Michael Ott <[email protected]>:
New Bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Jonathan Nieder <[email protected]>. (Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:27:02 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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From: Michael Ott <[email protected]>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]>
Subject: git-gui: git gui does not start because of wrong Tcl version
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:25:08 +0100
Package: git-gui
Version: 1:2.48.0~rc1+next.20250101-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

After my last update I got the following error message:

version conflict for package "Tcl:" have 9.0.1, need 8.5

After downgrade Tcl and Tk to 8.6 it works again


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (710, 'unstable'), (670, 'testing'), (660, 'experimental'), (600, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386, armhf, arm64

Kernel: Linux 6.13-rc7-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages git-gui depends on:
ii  git  1:2.48.0~rc1+next.20250101-1
ii  tk   9.0.1

Versions of packages git-gui recommends:
ii  gitk  1:2.48.0~rc1+next.20250101-1

Versions of packages git-gui suggests:
ii  aspell   0.60.8.1-4
pn  git-doc  <none>
ii  meld     3.22.3-1

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