[Pkg-pascal-devel] lazarus is marked for autoremoval from testing

[David Bannon]

On 29/12/22 15:41, Debian testing autoremoval watch wrote:
> lazarus 2.2.4+dfsg1-2 is marked for autoremoval from testing on 2023-02-02
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> It is affected by these RC bugs:
> 1026719: lazarus: vmg: FTBFS: /usr/bin/ld.bfd: cannot find -latk-1.0: No such file or directory
>   https://bugs.debian.org/1026719

Said Samuel -

/Yes, we had discussed it a bit in #967798, it is an issue in Lazarus: 
fp-units-gtk2-3.2.0 used to have the libgtk2.0-dev dependency, but 
fp-units-gtk2-3.2.2 doesn't any more, *but it should*, it shouldn't be 
up to users of the gtk2 unit to know which C dependency it should take./

I disagree (in my ignorance). If Lazarus has a dependency (and it does) 
on libgtk2.0-dev then its Lazarus that should be marked as having that 
dependency, not FPC.

We tell Lazarus users they must install libgtk2.0-dev before building 
Lazarus here 
-https://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus_on_Linux#Build_Lazarus_from_Source 
(disclaimer, its not an independent reference, I wrote it).

The same should apply to GTK2 based apps not using Lazarus (maybe Castle 
Game Engine ?), if you want to use the GTK2 widget set, install its -dev 
package.

Sorry if I am butting into space above my grade, concerned to see 
downstream packages threatened.

Davo





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