[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#528855: Bug#706623: libgdb-dev: missing .a files

[Abou Al Montacir]

On Wed, 2013-07-31 at 01:54 +0100, peter green wrote:
> Samuel Bronson wrote:
> > Since libgdb.a has been dropped upstream, we've dropped libgdb-dev
> > entirely now, and fp is going to need to come up with a different plan
> > for debugger support.
> >   
> Personally I tend to think we should just embed an appropriate version 
> of the libgdb source in the fpc source package. The debian policy on 
> embedded libraries is only a "should not" not a "must not" and I don't 
> see any significant security exposure in doing so.

I'd prefer to have is as a separate source package. But I'm also fine to
drop gdb support from IDE (that was the case for 2 years) and just push
users for using Lazarus (we can maybe add a message about that).

Cheers,
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