Dear maintainer,

your package tkcvs has not seen any updates for several years, without
the two NMUs it has been for more than 10 years.  Currently, there is
tkrev version 9.4.5 upstream [1] as the source package was renamed to
tkrev starting with version 9.4.0 in 2020.  The last version with the
source package name tkcvs was 9.3.3 [2].  Can you please update tkcvs
in Debian to either version 9.4.5 or version 9.3.3 at least.  Could you
also please consider to add debian/watch for tracking new versions at
Sourceforge.  Please let me know if you need any help.

Best regards,

Thomas Uhle


[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/tkcvs/files/tkrev_9.4.5.tar.gz/download
[2] https://sourceforge.net/projects/tkcvs/files/tkcvs_9.3.3.tar.gz/download

Control: tags -1 pending
[...]

9.5 is waiting in NEW
https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html

cu Andreas

Hi Andreas,

thanks a lot for your effort!

As tkrev supports git as well, could you also please change Depends on
"cvs | subversion" into "cvs | git | subversion".

Thank you once again!

Best regards,

Thomas Uhle

Hi Andreas,

there are two minor typos in debian/copyright.  In line 13, certainly it
has to be "TkCVS was re-licensed under the GPL v2".

Best regards,

Thomas Uhle

Hi Andreas,

although it is long ago that tkdiff had its own binary package in Debian,
I guess that the version of the new binary package tkdiff needs to be
prefixed by '1:' as well, please see
https://snapshot.debian.org/package/tkdiff/ for any older release.

Best regards,

Thomas Uhle

Good morning,
The last stable release to include tkdiff was Debian 6 squeeze (in 2011)
and these systems should have upgraded from tkdiff to tkcvs since then.
I do not think catering for any leftovers from then justifies adding a
epoch now.

cu Andreas

Honestly, I would think so too, but I remember this discussion on
packaging dhcpcd [1].  Have fun reading it!

Cheers,

Thomas


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/1037190

On 2025-07-07 Thomas Uhle <thomas.uhle@mailbox.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
[...]

Thanks for the pointer. That seems to be a little bit different, since
it could have caused actual breakage broken in the usrmerge transition.
Let's wait for NEW processing (will probaly take some time).

(BTW: I have forwarded the typo fix in debian/copyright upstream
since it was copied from there.)

cu Andreas

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
tkrev, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1039577@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org> (supplier of updated tkrev package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2025 10:41:44 +0200
Source: tkrev
Binary: tkcvs tkdiff tkrev
Architecture: source all
Version: 9.5-2
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Changed-By: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@debian.org>
Description:
 tkcvs      - transitional dummy package for tkrev
 tkdiff     - graphical side by side "diff" utility
 tkrev      - Graphical front-end to CVS, Subversion, GIT, RCS
Closes: 664084 699146 1039577
Changes:
 tkrev (9.5-2) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * QA upload.
   * Add a bunch of lintian-overrides for ancient lintian.
     ftpmaster seems to be running bullseye/oldstable lintian, I got an
     autoreject for
     tkcvs: lintian output: 'non-etc-file-marked-as-conffile remove-on-upgrade
     /etc/tkcvs/tkcvs_def.tcl', automatically rejected package.
     which was fixed in 2.105.0 anno 2021.
 .
 tkrev (9.5-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   * QA upload.
   * Package renamed to tkrev, new upstream. Closes: #1039577
   * Unfuzz patch for new upstream
   * Drop patch, upstream manpage has changed.
   * Run wrap-and-sort -ast
   * Add arch all tkcvs dummy package for seamless upgrades.
   * add lintian override for sh wrapped tcl code
   * [lintian] add ${misc:Depends} to transition package.
   * Update to debian/copyright, using info from upstream (tkcvs and tkdiff)
     SVN repos. Add Debian maintainer history.
   * Update package description for new upstream.
   * Bump Standards-Version.
   * Ship tkdiff upstream changelog
   * Move tkdiff to separate package Closes: #664084
   * Stop shipping tkdirdiff, we already recommend dirdiff and it is already
     removed in upstream SVN. (Closes: #699146)
   * Use special tkdiff version number that sorts lower than upstream version -1
   * Bump Tk version requirement.
   * Remove obsolete tkcvs conffile on upgrade.
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