[Pkg-pascal-devel] FPC 3.2.0 upload to SID

[Paul Gevers]

Hi,

On 06-08-2020 15:46, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
>> That everything works. Do we want to test building packages that B-D on
>> lazarus and/or fpc in experimental?
> I would opt going to SID. This will allow our users to discover more
> issues, as I don't think anyone is using experimental.

We would need to fix the autopkgtest failures [1] first too, otherwise
the package won't migrate.

> On the other hand, I contacted upstream about FTBFS on PPC64 and armel,

You're talking about lazarus here, I think? armel is an issue due to it
being a release arch. Fixing ppc64 can be delayed.

> and they seem to be related to PascalScript, a feature not supported by
> upstream on these architectures anyway.
> However they may provide some fixes for the build, not probably for the
> functionality.

I'm fine with uploading to unstable once we believe we can fix/prevent
the lazarus FTBFS on armel.

Paul

[1] https://release.debian.org/britney/pseudo-excuses-experimental.html

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