[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#997948: FPC should provide a way to trigger automatic rebuild of

Peter Blackman peter at pblackman.plus.com
Wed Apr 24 15:51:06 BST 2024


On 18/06/2023 09:45, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> However, fpc units are kind of statically linked libraries. And in 
> this case, one ma want a rebuild of all reverse dependencies in order 
> to ensure a bug fix is propagated on all binaries.
>
> Example: Suppose we discover a vulnerability in a unit. We want that 
> all units and all programs that use it be rebuilt, no?
>


Setting the 'Static-Built-Using' field in the control files of packages 
built with fpc should fix this.

Cheers,
Peter



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