[Pkg-pascal-devel] Lintian errors and warnings on FPC

[Paul Gevers]

Hi,

On 19-01-2022 02:58, David Bannon wrote:
> 
> Abou, there has been some discussion about these lintian warning on the
> FPC forum.
> 
> https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?topic=57926.msg431334
> 
> Seems a lot harder than I first thought. The issue is that FPC supports
> a far wider set of platforms than Debian, some do not themselves know
> about UTF8 for example.
> 
> So there are quite a number of files in the FPC source that cannot be
> converted to UTF8.
> 
> Obviously, there is also quite a lot of issues that can and will be
> fixed there.
> 
> So, when you called for help, just what were you asking for, fixes
> upstream or lintian overrides ?

I don't think it's good to do these changes in Debian if it's in more 
than a few files as that's a nightmare to maintain, it's something that 
needs to be done upstream. So I think we'll have to live with overrides 
for this UTF-8 issue.

We do have a couple of patches for spelling errors, I remember when I 
made them, there are several real spelling errors that need to stay. But 
by now I think spelling errors need to be fixed upstream, otherwise we 
need to carry those patches too long and there's maintenance with every 
new release. Better work on this upstream.

Paul
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