[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#1101421: fpc: Please consider packaging git snapshot

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Source: fpc
Version: 3.2.2+dfsg-46
Severity: wishlist
User: debian-loong64 at lists.debian.org
Usertags: loong64
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-loongarch at lists.debian.org

Hello,

since it's been almost four years now that upstream released version 3.2.2
and the codebase has gained support for both loong64 and riscv64 in the
mean time, I was wondering whether it would be possible to package a current
git snapshot of fpc upstream?

I have already bootstrapped native fpc binaries for loong64 and riscv64 [1]
and would just need an update fpc Debian souce package to bootstrap the fpc
Debian package for these architectures.

I will also look into bootstrapping for other architectures using the LLVM
backend such as s390x and sparc64 although I have no experience whether
this would actually work or whether fpc would still need some shim code to
work on these architectures through the LLVM backend.

The reason for opening this bug report is that the fpc Debian package is
not using the pristine upstream source but a repackaged upstream tarball
(dfsg) which makes updating the fpc package for an outsider a little more
complicated and I'd rather give the actual maintainers a chance first.

Thanks,
Adrian

> [1] https://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/glaubitz/fpc-bootstrap/

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