[Pkg-pascal-devel] Lazarus 1.2.2

[Paul Gevers]

Hi all,

Just when I was compiling Lazarus 1.2 I noticed that 1.2.2 was released.
As fpc 2.6.4 just got accepted, I think it is nice to get 1.2.2 packaged
as well. Just to confirm, we agreed to package this with the 1.2 suffix,
right?

Other issue, that is triggered by Lintian. We currently have a lot of
files in /usr/lib that are not arch dependent. According to the
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard [1] (which is a must according to Debian
Policy 9.1.1) these files must be stored in /usr/share. My understanding
is that for Lazarus all the files are (=must be?) in the same tree. A
solution could be to put everything that should be in /usr/share in
/usr/share and make sym links from the respective /usr/lib location, but
that seems like a lot of work. Do we have better ideas? Would upstream
be interesting in fixing this, or doesn't the freepascal community care
for FHS.

Paul
[1]
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/fhs/fhs-2.3.html#USRLIBLIBRARIESFORPROGRAMMINGANDPA
(and especially footnote 22)

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