<html><head></head><body><div>Hi Paul,</div><div><br></div><div>On Sun, 2023-01-01 at 15:14 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>As (one of) the core maintainer(s), the right course of action for you <br>would be to (at least) downgrade the RC bug that's causing the autoremoval.<br></div><div><br> From <a href="https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities" title="Click to open https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities">https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities</a>:<br>serious<br> is a severe violation of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a <br>"must" or "required" directive), or, in the package maintainer's or <br>release manager's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release.<br></div><div><br>Which means that if it's not a policy violation (which David and you <br>agree on), it's your call.<br></div></blockquote><div>Lazarus already declares a build depends relation to libgtk2.0-dev. So it not a Lazarus issue.</div><div>The real issue is that VMG does not declare that dependency because it was pulled by fp units gtk2 package.</div><div>As last upload removed this dependency as agreed with upstream, any program build using Lazarus and using GTK2 binding units should build depend on libgtk2.0-dev until it migrated to GTK3 or GTK4.</div><div><br></div><div>I dont agree to reduce the severity of the bug, because an FTBFS is for me a serious bug. </div><div>However, I don't agree that this is a Lazarus bug but a VMG one.</div><div>I did not reassign it back to VMG in order to avoid ping-pong with Samuel until he agrees to get it back, but I'll keep the bug's severity as is for now.</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>