[Pkg-pascal-devel] doublecmd backport to wheezy

[Graham Inggs]

Hi Paul / Bruno

On 31/05/2015 13:33, Paul Gevers wrote:
> As main maintainer of doublecmd, what do you think? Shall I sponsor this
> with the Debian maintainers consent?

I haven't reviewed Bruno's packaging yet, but I have no objections if 
you have and are happy to sponsor it.

> On 25-05-15 18:40, bruno zanetti wrote:
>> I'd  be pleased to share a backport I made of doublecmd from jessie
>> (0.5.11-1) to wheezy. The only change I made (in debian/control) was to
>> force use of fp >= 2.6.4 and lcl >= 1.2 from wheezy-backports to avoid
>> FTBFS.
>

I think it would be better to backport 0.6.2-1 as upstream's changelog 
[1] shows a long list of fixes since 0.5.11-1.
I'm not familiar with the backporting process, but I think this should 
be possible.

Instead of forcing the use of fpc >= 2.6.4 and lcl >= 1.2, another way 
of avoiding the FTBFS is to leave the build-depends on fpc and lcl as 
they are and additionally build-depend on lazarus-src.  I am thinking of 
using this method for backporting doublecmd to Ubuntu Trusty.  I don't 
know which method is better suited for Debian backports.

Regards
Graham

[1] http://doublecmd.sourceforge.net/mantisbt/changelog_page.php