[Lazarus] Lazarus FPC Debian BackPorts

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 11:54:12 +0200
"Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis" <d.ioannidis at nephelae.eu> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>   ( apologies for cross-posting )
> 
>    I'm in the process of investigating the possible path I should take to 
> help the Debian pkg-pascal-team to provide backport's packages for 
> Debian Wheezy and Jessie ( and why not Squeeze LTS ). Will the Lazarus 
> 1.2.x tree continue to support fpc 2.6.0 ?

We don't test with that version (2.6.0 is from 1st Jan 2012). But
1.2.x only receives bug fixes so chances are high that 1.2.6 compiles
with the same compilers as 1.2.0. Does it compile with 2.6.0?


>    OTH, maybe it's more easy to just package the latest stable for both 
> FPC and Lazarus ( 2.6.4 and 1.2.6 ) for all Debian versions.
> 
>    What do you think ?

It would be a big plus if any new Debian release would use the
latest fpc/laz version.
OTOH I'm not sure if backport users want the latest and
greatest. 2.6.4 introduced some incompatibilities vs 2.6.0.
If some backport user want the latest and greatest he can download it
from our sf page.

Mattias