[Pkg-pascal-devel] lazarus 2.0.0 FTBFS

[Abou Al Montacir]

Hi Paul,
On Wed, 2019-02-20 at 19:39 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi Abou,
> 
> On 20-02-2019 16:15, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> > > Are there strong opinions about including this in buster (or not)? If
> > > nobody pushes for it, I think I'll keep it in experimental until after
> > > the release.
> > I would like to have this in next stable.
> > Is there a particular reason to not have it there?
> 
> The reason is that we are in soft freeze and this is very much against
> the spirit of it [1]:
> """
> Starting 2019-02-12, only small, targeted fixes are appropriate for
> buster. We want maintainers to focus on small, targeted fixes. This is
> mainly, at the maintainers discretion, there will be no hard rule that
> will be enforced.
> """
I see the point, but as you said this a soft freeze, and tests performed by
Graham show everything is OK
I'd say that from a user point of view, having the latest release is buster will
make much difference.
Otherwise people will turn in direction of non official deb packages and this
will be a pity.

As we only have a few days before hard freeze, let's push this.
-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir

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