[Pkg-pascal-devel] Going to remove dependency of FPC on GTK2

[Peter Blackman]

On 13/02/2026 12:07, David Bannon wrote:
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> Abou, thanks heaps for what you are doing here but I am afraid it may not make the problem go away.
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> By changing the dependency of the [fpc]/packages/gtk2 on gtk2, yes, its acceptable to Debian.
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> However, it will not, now, build Lazarus using (eg) Qt6 because the fp-unit-gtk2 is no longer a dependency of fpc.. The other widget sets make use of cairocanvas (and pango, pangocairo) and they depend on FPC units that live (for what ever reason) in that same packages/gtk2 directory. They are not gtk2 packages and don't themselves depend on gtk2, are widely used elsewhere.
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Hi David,

Thanks for reporting this. I plan to revert that bit over the weekend.
Dropping the depends on fp-unit-gtk2 seemed a good idea at the time,
but dropping the depends on libgtk2.0-dev was the only change that was really needed.

Cheers,
Peter


P.S.  /nitpick   Please don't top post on mailing lust replies