<html><head></head><body><div>Hi Paul,</div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, 2024-02-15 at 15:43 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>Hi Abou,<br></div><div><br></div><div>On 14-02-2024 23:17, Abou Al Montacir wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>The motivation for this, is that 3.0 gives many big improvements to user <br></div><div>experience and most users use stable and many of them don't even know <br></div><div>how to use backports.<br></div><div><br></div><div>What do you think?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think you need a very strong case. For sure you need to elaborate much <br></div><div>more than what you describe above. It's very unlikely that this will be <br></div><div>accepted.</div></blockquote><div>For me, Bookworm has about 2 year before next release will probably be published. Adding also that 2.2 was released almost 3 years ago, this makes it so much old Lazarus version for Debian users.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, FPC, is not like GCC, only few packages (actually maybe 30) are using it, so the impact is very reduced. Also, the update of FPC is minor and the risk is almost null.</div><div><br></div><div>Now, of course some users use backports for getting new Lazarus version, but this is an obscure feature for so many users.</div><div><br></div><div>Of course, it not as strong argument as a security fix, but it is importent from marketing point of view. I know such arguments are so tiny for an open source project, but this is the main argument I got each time I discuss with Lazarus users that prefer using the upstream Debian package.</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><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"></blockquote></body></html>