[Lazarus] Fwd: Build-Depends: imagemagick

Kamen Ketev kamenlist at abv.bg
Mon Oct 15 09:55:24 CEST 2012


 
Hi, 
I install Lazarus from

  Debian     Repository   
under Ubuntu and compyle new project without problem. But can't find debugger. I
 install Lazarus 1.0.2 from sf and compyle new project without problem. Without debugger they runs. Please tell me where I can find debugger
 under Ubuntu. Thanks!
 


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Относно: [Lazarus] Fwd:  Build-Depends: imagemagick
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Изпратено на: Неделя, 2012, Октомври 14 04:52:26 EEST


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2012/10/8 Mattias Gaertner  nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de >:



>  That's a lot

> of work and I'm glad they do it.



The problem is the Debian packages from Debian don't do it either!



They consist of many hundred lines of convoluted unmaintained(!)

script that is trying to press every possible button the debian

packaging system provides (except the new dh overrides which would

simplify matters) (it has meta-packages and virtual packages and

versioned packages, it is using update-alternatives for no reason (who

wants to install two different ancient(!) versions of Lazarus

simultaneously?)), it is ripping apart lazarus into many small pieces

and introducing new bugs and damaging Lazarus' reputation and the only

thing it is *NOT* doing is installing all needed files where they

belong! It does not install mime types, it is trying to intstall a

default config file that does not even exist anymore, when you start

it for the first time it will complain about wrong paths and packages

installed but no .lpk files found (probably because lazarus-ide fails

to depend on lazarus-src which is *essential* for using the ide, why

did they split it in the first place?), even a simple make install

even in the current limited form would immediately give a better

install than the debs from Debian.



I would rather not see any of these half-baked and broken Debian

packages at all in any of the repositories so that no new user

accidentally installs them and then immediately comes to the

conclusion that Lazarus is completely broken and unusable because that

is exactly what currently happens when one installs Lazarus from the

Ubuntu software center.



I vote for dumping this broken and unmaintained packaging entirely and

rewrite it from scratch in a much simpler way with only two packages,

one containing everything needed for building from the command line

with lazbuild and another package containing the ide, the source and

all the rest that is needed to use the ide because this is the only

logical and natural separation that would make sense. Everything going

beyond that would be nonsense and wasted manpower.



If Lazarus and Pascal programming and Pascal units are by design

incompatible with the way how Debian is organized or how its ancient

bureaucratic policies blindly dictate and they cannot put such simple

and working packages into their Repository then so be it! It doesn't

matter! An alternative repository can be set up in one afternoon and

Debian could no longer damage the reputation of Lazarus by providing

ancient and broken packages.



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