[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#985946: patch proposal

[Paul Gevers]

Hi David,

I was just pointed to this bug.

On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 10:21:43 +1000 David Bannon
<dbannon at internode.on.net> wrote:
[...]

> then I built Lazarus from source (my prefered model) and found more
> issues that relate, I think, to LCL, particularly under Qt5.  So, in my
> very uneducated opinion, Lazarus is not yet ready for ppc64el and as its
> not on the Lazarus's supported list, they won't be very interested in
> finding out why that is.  They would definitely accept patches but a bug
> report with no solution will not attract a lot of attention.
> 
> I suggest its not really a very good idea to list Lazarus as a supported
> Debian package on ppc64el. FPC is fine, but not Lazarus. Just my opinion.

I think Abou (on the list in CC) would love to discuss your experience.
The Debian FreePascal team likes to support Lazarus (and FPC) on all
Debian supported architectures where feasible, but we need to be made
aware of issues before we can fix them.

Paul

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