[Pkg-pascal-devel] lazarus 1.2.6

[Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis]

Στις 01-11-2014 09:55, Paul Gevers έγραψε:
> On 31-10-14 22:48, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
>> 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)

This is the main reason that made me to join here. Lack of backport.

>> 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.

IMHO, this is exactly what the majority do.

Regards,
-- 
Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis