<html><head></head><body><div>Hi Samuel,</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 14.666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 19:27:23 +0100 Samuel Thibault <<a href="mailto:sthibault@debian.org">sthibault@debian.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 14.666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Control: reassign -1 lazarus<br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 14.666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Control: affects -1 + vmg<br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 14.666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 14.666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Hello,<br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 14.666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 14.666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Lucas Nussbaum, le mar. 20 déc. 2022 18:31:46 +0100, a ecrit:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 14.666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Linking ./vmg<br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 14.666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">/usr/bin/ld.bfd: cannot find -lgdk-x11-2.0: No such file or directory<br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 14.666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">/usr/bin/ld.bfd: cannot find -lgtk-x11-2.0: No such file or directory</div></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote><div>...</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 14.666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">/usr/bin/ld.bfd: cannot find -latk-1.0: No such file or directory</div></blockquote></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 14.666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 14.666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Yes, we had discussed it a bit in #967798, it is an issue in Lazarus:<br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 14.666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">fp-units-gtk2-3.2.0 used to have the libgtk2.0-dev dependency, but<br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 14.666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">fp-units-gtk2-3.2.2 doesn't any more, but it should, it shouldn't be up<br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Cantarell; font-size: 14.666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">to users of the gtk2 unit to know which C dependency it should take.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sorry, but, as FPC maintaining team member, I don't share this __ <i><b>should</b></i> __ statement for the following reasons.</div><ul><li><span style="caret-color: rgb(46, 52, 54); color: rgb(46, 52, 54);">GTK2 is declared as deprecated in Debian since long time ago.</span></li><li>Technically, Lazarus doe snot need libgtk2.0-dev for running, and thus should not pull it.</li><li>Technically, FPC does not need any GTK related lib, it only provide binding units. So it should not pull it either.</li><li>For building, Lazarus build depends on <span style="font-size: 14.666667px;">libgtk2.0-dev, until it will migrate to gtk3. <u><b>And so shall do all programs that use it.</b></u></span></li></ul><div><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;">I hope this makes it clear, why neither Lazarus, nor FPC or any of their packages should pull libgtk2.0-dev package.</span></div><div>You should handle this bug in VMG, and probably the best way to do it is to build depend on libgtk-2.0-dev until you fix <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=967798">https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=967798</a></div><pre style="caret-color: rgb(46, 52, 54); color: rgb(46, 52, 54); font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">-- <br></pre><pre style="caret-color: rgb(46, 52, 54); color: rgb(46, 52, 54); font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.4); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir</pre></body></html>