[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#793991: Update on bug#793991: lazarus: armel and armhf builds stall

[Abou Al Montacir]

On Thu, 2015-09-03 at 20:18 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> On 03-09-15 00:09, Graham Inggs wrote:
> > On 2 September 2015 at 23:18, Abou Al Montacir <abou.almontacir at sfr.fr> 
> > wrote:
> > > If you remove -z relro, lintian will not be happy for sure. This was added 
> > > to
> > > cope with errors/warnings issued by lintian.
> > 
> > Yes, Lintian does emit hardening-no-relro warnings (not errors).
> > 
> > > I'd prefer we involve upstream to understand what happens.
> > 
> > At the moment, we have cqrlog and doublecmd which are unable to
> > migrate because of the arm build failures, and we have fpc which is
> > unable to migrate because of cqrlog being unable to migrate.  I
> > propose that we work around the problem for now, and then deal with
> > whatever upstream or debian-arm come back with later.
> 
> I think we should just upload with the patch of Graham. It is stalling
> stuff while we have a work around for now (cqrlog has already worked
> around lazbuild even). Or Abou do you think that it is better to not
> have lazarus migrate? Maybe keep lazarus blocked but let it build
> packages in sid?

I think we can accept the patch for now and wait to see if we still have the
issue in FPC 3.0.

For me this patch can be accepted as short term solution, but not as long or
medium term.

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Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir