[Pkg-pascal-devel] lazarus 1.2.6

[Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis]

Στις 06-11-2014 12:26, Paul Gevers έγραψε:
> On 06-11-14 11:15, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote:
>> Στις 01-11-2014 12:11, Paul Gevers έγραψε:
>>> On 01-11-14 09:32, Paul Gevers wrote:
>>>> On 01-11-14 09:15, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote:
>>>>> This is the main reason that made me to join here. Lack of 
>>>>> backport.
>>>> 
>>>> Ok, so basically you offered to help to get the backport running. As 
>>>> far
>>>> as I can tell, the backport for wheezy should just work, so I will 
>>>> (try
>>>> to) build and upload shortly. If you commit to help with possible
>>>> problems in the backport I believe we have the manpower right there 
>>>> for
>>>> the wheezy backport.
>>> 
>>> Oh, one generic question to the team. I think backporting Lazarus 
>>> only
>>> makes sense using the backported versions of fpc, right? So the 
>>> latest
>>> Lazarus with the old fpc is neither tested nor supported?
>> 
>> AFAIK, there is no problem to use Lazarus 1.2.6 with the 2.6.0 ( and
>> just to be sure
>> I asked in the lists ) but why anyone wants to do that ?
> 
> It is not a matter of anybody wanting to do it. I want the package to 
> be
> technically correct. On backports, if we want to build against the fpc
> package in backports, we need to declare that dependency, else it will
> be build against the version in the normal achieve. Backports don't
> automatically "pollute" AFAICT. So unless we force lazarus to build
> against at least fpc 2.6.4+dfsg, it will be build with 2.6.0. What do 
> we
> think is the right thing to do?

According to that mail response [1], the Lazarus team doesn't test, at 
least
the Lazarus 1.2.6, against fpc 2.6.0, so I think that we must use fpc 
2.6.4 .

> By the way, fpc was build, uploaded and excepted in the backports
> archive. For the build logs, see [1]. Testing it is appreciated and
> would be a great contribution to the backporting effort.

Will do try to see if I can help with this.

[1] 
http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/pipermail/lazarus/2014-November/089156.html

Regards,
-- 
Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis