[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#1072718: lazarus: Lazarus fails to compile itself

[Peter B]

On 07/06/2024 02:26, Bas van Besouw wrote:
> Package: lazarus
> Version: 3.0+dfsg1-8
> Severity: serious
> Tags: ftbfs

Hi Bas,

some general points about bug reporting;

1)  The tag ftbfs is used when the package does not build from the 
debian source (using debuild or whatever)

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=lazarus
Lazarus is building fine from source.

When a compiler fails to build something locally, that is not ftbfs.
If the package really was ftbfs, there would be nothing for users to 
install.


2)  The severity serious means a "severe violation of Debian policy".

https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities

Lazarus failing to rebuild the IDE, but generally working fine apart 
from that, is unfortunate, and definitely
a [Normal] bug, but it is hardly a "severe violation of Debian policy".


Regards,
Peter

P.S.   I can reproduce this problem too, with both 3.0 & 3.4 Debian 
packages,
       but rebuilding the IDE works with the Arch Linux 3.4 package.