[Lazarus] Newcomers with Debian based systems

[Marco van de Voort]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 01:04:23PM +0100, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
> Marco van de Voort schrieb:
> 
> >> As it looks to me now, I do not only see Lazarus in a downward spiral, 
> >> instead the spiral already has reached ground zero :-(
> > 
> > Strange, while reading this, I thought the same, but then about Ubuntu.
> > Since what else is a distribution then packaging and integrating the
> > separate raw packages?
> 
> The problems reside in the way, how the packages are constructed and fit 
> into the package management of the platform. The major problems were 
> finding the appropriate packages at all, and then to install the *many* 
> related/dependent packages at once. I've added my solution to the 
> "Getting Lazarus" (for Ubuntu) wiki page.
> 
> The Lazarus specific problems with the currently available kits affect 
> the help system, and mostly have been cured in the trunk. There was
> - an incompatible placement of the help docs,
> - browser was not detected,
> - StartPage does not use the user configured help path,
> - incomplete docs after rebuild (missing topics)
> - FPDoc Editor has problems with the Lazarus-Directory macro,
> - and no help available unless all settings are correct.
> 
> Another problem: how can a user rebuild Lazarus, when it has been 
> installed into /usr where the user has not enough rights.
> 
> Some of these topics have been or still are show stoppers, preventing an 
> average user (even skilled developer) from testing Lazarus.

Probably all true, but why do you post this here, and not on the responsible
bugsystem or maillist of Ubuntu?