[Pkg-pascal-devel] fp-utils / fpc-source bug in 3.0.4

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Gerhard,

Thanks for your e-mail and your interest in improving the fpc package.

On 22-03-2019 18:28, Gerhard Demleitner wrote:
> fp-utils depends on the pascal-source. There is a typo in the dependencies.
> One writes the version behind the name with a '_' (underscore), the
> other one with a '-' (hyphen).

Package names with underscore are not allowed in Debian, so the typo as
you describe it is not possible, as the package would have invalid
dependencies. See
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-source for
the allowed characters.

> Result: fpc-source-3.0.4 is needet to install fp-utils-3.0.4, and
> fpc-source_3.0.4 is installed.

Can you explain what you mean here? Did you try to install only
fp-utils-3.0.4 and you got fpc-source (without version)? That would we
weird as that unversioned dependency is not defined in the control file
AFAICT.

> Usually the names have the version separated (means with a '_') from the
> version. Therefore I think, in fp-utils both names are wrong spelled.
> It should be (my view):
> fpc-source_3.0.4
> fp-utils_3.0.4

It's not clear what you mean here.

> That would solve the problem and follow the naming convention in the
> rest of the project.
> Please check wether fpc-laz is spelled correctly as fpc-laz_3.0.4 - some
> other are already depending on it.

In Debian, we don't ship fpc-laz. That is a package provided by the
lazarus project. As far as I know, they are doing this because they
don't agree with the way we package fpc and it's parts in Debian.

Paul

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