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

[David Bannon]

On Thu, 2022-01-20 at 08:54 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:
> > The FPC devs are unwilling to see the ISO-8859-xx files converted
> > to
> 
> Override it is in my opinion. It's not worth the effort.
Noted.

> > Hardening is a problem with some of the binaries, 
> Totally agree. But please don't jump through hoops here. It's good
> to 
> have hardening, but if unsupported upstream, it may also be an
> uphill 
> battle (I don't know).
No,  generally FPC supports hardening, there is an issue on PPC64el and
I have logged a bug report and its agreed it "will be fixed". But the
warnings under discussion are about amd64 and FPC does do hardening
there. As long as its a dynamically linked binary and that is an issue
sometimes. Some of those utility binaries may well be small static ones
and they will not harden (because code is not relocatable).  So, thats
fixable at the Debian end IMHO.

Its likely a future release of FPC will again do hardening correctly on
PPC64el too.


On Thu, 2022-01-20 at 21:16 +0100, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> ......
> Then there are the tedious issues of the spelling. I think these can
> be forwarded via the upstream gitlab tracking tool, maybe pull
> requests.

OK, I will put together some pull requests addressing just the the
spelling issues. One by one I am afraid. Will be a slow process but
eventually it will work its way to you. So, don't bother overriding
spelling.


> Finally national encoding we can just hide.

I will try for a some of these too. Good chance they will fail so
assume override for now. Might mean later we (ie you) need be removed
it but so be it.

Davo



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