'''Unofficial repositories'''

   2. Debian-cosy is a repository of unofficial debian packages, mostly made by Victor Wagner and Artem Chuprina

    deb http://ftp.45.free.net/pub/debian-cosy sarge local updates tcl
    deb-src http://ftp.45.free.net/pub/debian-cosy sarge local updates tcl

Contains ... I dunno ... lots of stuff

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'''Packages available from official repositories'''

As the extensions are packaged separately it would be useful to have a list of cross references. This would help developers used to ActiveState TCL able to quickly set up their Debian environment.

First column is the option to tcl command '''package require''', second column is the debian package as given to apt-get install, and third column is a description. This list is meant to track the unstable release policy.

 Tcl     tcl-8.4      The base tcl package
	 tcl-8.4-doc  Tcl man pages
 Tk      tk-8.4       The base tk package
	 tk-8.4-doc   Tk man pages
	 tcllib       The Standard Tcl Library
 Tclx    tclx8.4      Extended Tcl (TclX) - shared library
	 tclx8.4-doc  Extended Tcl (TclX) - manpages
 Thread  tclthread    Script level access to Tcl threading
 Img     libtk-img    Extended image format support for Tcl/Tk
 snack   libsnack2    Sound extension
 Tktable tktable      Table extension for Tcl/Tk
 BLT     blt	  BLT extension library for Tcl/Tk
 Tix     tix	  Tix library for Tk

 ... more packages to follow ...
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''[escargo] 25 Oct 2007'' - Note this Debian news: [http://lwn.net/Articles/254736/]

''As already announced to all interested maintainers whose packages depend on Tcl/Tk, there is an ongoing effort of drafting a policy for team maintenance of Tcl/Tk main packages and their modules/extensions. This is now an announce to the larger audience of all maintainers in order to inform also people who could be interested in packaging Tcl/Tk related packages in the next future.''

See also: http://pkg-tcltk.alioth.debian.org/tcltk-policy.html/

''[escargo] 21 Feb 2008'' - Note this later Debian news (''Making the recently released Tcl/Tk 8.5 the default package in Lenny.'')
   * http://lwn.net/Articles/269250/
   * http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianTclTk/UsrLibTransition
   * http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianTclTk/TclTk83Removal


''[RLH] 21 Feb 2008'' -  Are they looking for a maintainer? I just picked up a gig that makes me the Debian admin for a company. Once I get settled in and comfortable with Debian I would have no problem becoming the Debian package maintainer or one of them anyway.

''escargo'' - You would have to ask them.  I'm reasonably sure they would welcome the help, especially with 8.3 removal and
/usr/lib transition.

''RLH'' - Will do...

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