[Pkg-pascal-devel] lazarus 1.2.6

[Paul Gevers]

On 31-10-14 22:48, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> I think it is not really necessary to branch, just go ahead on master.
> I'm not planning to upload in the next few weeks. And if we really need
> to upload then we can branch from latest 1.2.4 upload. We used to that
> workflow on the past.

I don't think the question of "planning" is relevant, but indeed,
branching for jessie can be done as well if needed.

> Do we really have enough manpower to provide backports?

I don't consider the backport much effort and I rather see it as a way
that we might spot issues in the packaging earlier. If I look at the
popcon stats [1,2], I conclude that our users are either using testing
or (1/3) or people are using the package from upstream (2/3). (I
conclude that from the ratio between e.g. fpc, fp-2.6.4 and fp-ide; the
story is worse for lazarus)

> Also, is there any request from users?

I fear most users are on stable and are using upstream packages because
they want to be up-to-date. However, I rather have them use the "proper"
Debian packages.

Paul

[1] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=fpc
[2] https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=lazarus


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