[Pkg-pascal-devel] rebuilding with fpc 3.0.0

[Abou Al Montacir]

On Thu, 2015-11-05 at 13:32 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi Abou,
> 
> On 03-11-15 06:26, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> > FPC uses PPU files which are compiler and RTL version depending. This
> > means that you can generally not use a PPU compiled with an older
> > version of FPC with new FPC version.
> 
> Sure, I sort of know that. This only means that updating fpc needs to go
> in lockstep with rebuilding lazarus (and cge and ??). My main question
> is: are there known reasons why lazarus 1.4.x build with fpc 3.0.0 would
> not work properly (or why we shouldn't even try to do this in Debian).
I don't expect breakage, or it will be a known issue by upstream.
> > 
> > Now we have a partial fix for that, as users that already installed
> > Lazarus will see the old FPC version kept (that is why we have versioned
> > package names). But Lazarus will become non installable on any new
> > system as it depends on a package that no more exist (old FPC/RTL).
> > 

> 
> 
> Not really true as the old packages will only be removed (uncrufted)
> when no other packages depend on them. So we are good here.
> 
> 
> > 
> > This will block migration of FPC to testing too.
> > 

> 
> 
> Which is good and proper IMO, I assume that is what you meant.

That is what I meant
-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir
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