[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#1142310: ITP: lazbuild -- Build lazarus packages for any widget set

[Abou Al Montacir]

On Fri, 2026-07-17 at 17:29 +0100, Peter Blackman wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Peter <peter at pblackman.plus.com>
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel at lists.debian.org, peter at pblackman.plus.com
> 
> * Package name    : lazbuild
>    Version         : 4.8
> * URL             : https://www.lazarus-ide.org
> * License         : See debian/copyright in lazarus package
>    Programming Lang: Pascal
>    Description     : Build lazarus packages for any widget set
> 
>   Packages can be built for any supported widget sets
>   if appropriate libraries are installed.
>   Lazarus supports GTK1, GTK2, GTK3, Qt4, Qt5, Qt6.
>   This package is solely for use as a build dependency.
>   It is not intended for Lazarus development (Use the IDE).
> 
> This is a minimal package, with a single binary.
> Compared to the lazarus package,
> it has a 27 line d/rules file instead of 314,
> and 9 files in the debian folder instead of 47.
> 
> I will maintain the package myself inside the Pascal Packaging Team.
While I see the interest of having lazbuild in a separate package, I
think that it shall still be part of the lazarus sources as it makes
little sens to use it without LCL packages.

If the real issue is the big rules file, then maybe the solution would
be to simplify lazarus rule files (which is BTW in my todo list) rather
than creating multiple small source packages from the unique upstream
one.

Let's discuss this on mailing list before doing this split.
-- 
Cheers,
Mazen Neifer
Debian Developer
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-pascal-devel/attachments/20260717/15ab286e/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 228 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <http://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-pascal-devel/attachments/20260717/15ab286e/attachment.sig>