[Pkg-pascal-devel] Builds targeting experimental

[Peter B]

Hi Paul,

On 25/06/2025 20:31, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 24-06-2025 14:03, Peter B wrote:
>> I got FTBFS because it seems that with experimental,
>> apt installs the lowest version of Lazarus available, 3.6  !!!
>
>
> experimental doesn't use the default resolver. It uses aptitude if I'm 
> correct. You can get interesting results.

I certainly did!



>> Should we keep 3.6 & 3.8 in Sid?
>> I would like to for possible regression testing.
>
>
> In principle that's cruft. It's also listed here: 
> https://ftp-master.debian.org/cruft-report-daily.txt
> It should just be cleaned up. I'm wondering why it's on the list and 
> I'm assuming Built-Using is involved.
>
>> Could we do givebacks on lazarus 3.8 & 3.6 so they can still be used?
>
>
> I'm not sure what you're asking, but the src:lazarus can only be build 
> using the latest version.

Opps. Yes you're right of course, I was confusing binary versions with 
source versions


>
>> Looks like there was a giveback on 4.0 only.
>
>
> Because that's the only thing that makes sense in Debian, older 
> versions should get removed.
>
>> ISTM these packages currently useless on account of this tedious 
>> "checksum changed" issue.
>
>
> Ack. They are cruft. You might want to ask ftp-master.

Noted. I can't see any benefit in keeping them now fpc has been updated.
And keeping them is likely to break any other Lazarus package upload to 
experimental.


Cheers,
Peter