[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#1016914: fpc-source-3.2.0: fpc is not shipped with the units of the vcl-compat package

[Paul Gevers]

Hi Jan,

Thanks for reporting.

On 09-08-2022 18:26, Jan Baumgarten wrote:
> a user of Zeos (zeoslib.sourceforge.io) mentioned that our software fails to
> build because the unit System.NetEncoding is not available.
> There seems to be no package file that contains these units even though the
> source file is installed in /usr/share/fpcsrc/3.2.0/packages/vcl-
> compat/src/system.netencoding.pp.

Yes, I can see that in e.g. 
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=fpc&arch=amd64&ver=3.2.2%2Bdfsg-11&stamp=1653593343&raw=0 
(under the dh_missing section).

> The fpc project itself ship these unit with their installer. Also the unit gets
> built using fpclazup. I suggest to somehow include the vcl-compat packagt that
> contains the System.NetEncoding unit.

Is there an existing package that makes sense to contain these units?

Paul
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