[Pkg-pascal-devel] upstreaming Debian patches [Was Bug#813452: fpc-3.0 regression in armhf and armel architectures]

[Abou Al Montacir]

Hi Paul,
On Wed, 2016-02-24 at 20:23 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On 24-02-16 08:19, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> > Normally you need to checkout the fpcbuild repository and just replace
> > debian folder by the one from our git. If things did not diverge too
> > much it should work.
> 
> One of the problems is that nowadays we carry quite some patches. We
Yes indeed there are many patches and we need to reduce their number in order to
ease transitions.
However many of them are already applied on upstream trunk.
> should be more aggressive on upstreaming them, but my luck with that is
> 

There is no special interest for upstream in Debian. As we lack a person pushing
on upstream side this will not help.
> limited. In the past, I was hoping that you, Abou, would be doing that
> but it looks like I was not quite right on your interests (trying to
> make that a bit clearer by stating this and hoping for a response).

In the far past I used to be active upstream and thus pushed many patches.
Nowadays I don't even have the time to read mails on FPC core mailing list, so I
don't feel much confident in asking others to do the job I should do. It is even
worse than my situation with Debian due to lack of time.
Now I still have commit access to FPC trunk and I did use it today to sync debian directory. Normally having the tonight snapshots sources of trunk and typing make deb will build Debian packages. I also fixed all patches there. I just failed to build because I don't have 3.0.0 installed on my laptop and don't have time to setup a sid chroot.
Now for my particular interest , I'm still interested in Pascal as my first programming language, however du to more responsibilities in my new job I really lack time to contribute. However from time to time, and for special cases like this, I force my self to take a few hours to help. Please don't hesitate to push me if you really think you can not do it yourself easily. 
For now this list is the only one I read regularly, but sometimes with few days of lag, so you may expect late answers but still you will got them.

-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir
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