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

[David Bannon]

On Wed, 2022-01-19 at 20:36 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> 
> On 19-01-2022 02:58, David Bannon wrote:
> > Abou, there has been some discussion about these lintian warning on
> > the
> > FPC forum.
> > 
> > 

> I don't think it's good to do these changes in Debian 

I definitely agree but evidence is that quite a lot of them are "will
not be fixed" upstream. I am pretty sure I can fix the real spelling
issues. Tedious but necessary. The "national-encoding" are much harder.
A small number can be fixed (IMHO) but most are use of accented
characters, mostly in contributor's names.

The FPC devs are unwilling to see the ISO-8859-xx files converted to
UTF8 because FPC still supports many Operating Systems that does not
know about UTF8. And there is no appetite for munging people's names.
So, there is no upstream solution and, I suggest, a debian patch
approach may just compromise cross compilers built from the Debian
source so, its override or nothing !

Hardening is a problem with some of the binaries, FPC does not ship
hardened binaries, if Debian wants hardening, thats a debian fix I am
afraid.

I will pursue the things I can change upstream and perhaps start on a
lintian override file. I note fpc source does not include a debian
directory, guessing the Lazarus people (who make the FPC debs) have
their own process to build.

Davo




> 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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