[Lazarus] debian packages now have testing/unstable requirements

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 20:22:03 -0700
David Emerson <dle3ab at angelbase.com> wrote:

> Hey y'all,
> 
> I'm disappointed to discover that the lazarus packages at hu.freepascal.org are 
> now requiring libatk 1.29.3 (or greater) whereas debian stable has 1.22

AFAIK the libatk dependency is automatically setup by the dpkg tool
using the version of the building machine.

 
> What's the status on this? Is there any chance that this requirement might be 
> relaxed in the future?

I guess not, except we downgrade the debian machine.

 
> I tried installing lazarus-ide-qt, but the lazarus-ide package still seems to 
> have a bunch of gtk requirements. Perhaps the lazarus-ide package needs to be 
> cleaned up?

I didn't check. It should not have any gtk requirements. 

 
> Maybe I need to start using svn now, in order to avoid some of these library 
> dependencies?

Yes, it is worth a try.


Mattias