[Lazarus] debian packages now have testing/unstable requirements

[Gustavo Enrique Jimenez]

Hi

2010/4/7 Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de>:
> 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.
>

I think this is a bad idea. Forcing Debian users to install
Testing/Unstable is a bad idea.

Debian Stable exists for a reason, a very good reason, far beyond any
Lazarus reason to depend on Debian Testing/Unstable.

Gustavo



>
>> 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
>
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