[Pkg-pascal-devel] lazarus binary package doesn't depend on lcl?

[Paul Gevers]

Hi all (and mostly Abou),

When you install the lazarus binary package without recommends, you
don't get the lcl. Is that intended? Looking at the description, I think
lazarus-# should Depends on lcl-#.

 In short, Lazarus is a free RAD tool for Free Pascal using its Lazarus
 Component Library (LCL).
 .
 This metapackage pulls in all the packages needed to have a typical
 Lazarus installation.

This issue is brought to my attention due to Ubuntu bug 1584302¹

We had a similar discussion about this in Debian bug 690974², but then I
didn't realize the description of lazarus raises expectations and how I
see people would use this. To be fair, if you install lazarus-ide-# you
don't need to get the lcl, but if you install the lazarus metapackage, I
think you do. And to be honest, while reading back that bug I wonder if
the depends from lazarus-ide-# to lazarus-src-# is correct, I guess if
you want the ide stand-alone, you don't need the lazarus source.

Paul

¹ https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lazarus/+bug/1584302
² http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690974

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