[Bug 275688] Re: Please sync fpc 2.2.2-4 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)

[Paul Gevers]

So far I have tested building 2.2.2-4ubuntu1 on gutsy, intrepid and hardy. Gutsy fails because of 
  Processing fpcsrc/utils/Makefile.fpc
  Error: Target "linux", package "fcl-base" not found
Googling for that error it looks like that is due to a different location of the fpc source [0]
Hardy and Intrepid build fine. See [1], including the logs.
I did not even start building on Dapper because the build depends are not fulfilled (fp-compiler, fp-units-base and fp-utils)

I am wondering thou, is this the way to go? Really trying to extract the
relevant parts from the 2.2.2 version to patch the earlier releases is a
bridge to far for me (with my current programming skills).

Should the Dapper and Gutsy version just be changed to reflect the
change in licensing? How would we achieve this anyway? I guess than
gearhead and python-soappy also need relicensing (how does that work? I
that feasible?)

Although I am still willing to help, I could do with some more
directions. I am pretty new to packaging (~3 packages) and am not really
into programming. Rebuilding all the build depends in the different
releases, right?

And just to be sure that I understand the situation:
All programs build with the old version of fpc can *only* be licensed under GPL (which version by the way?)
All programs build with the 2.2.2 version of fpc can be licensed under GPL or LGPL.

[0] http://www.mail-archive.com/fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org/msg08706.html
[1] https://launchpad.net/~paul-climbing/+archive

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Please sync fpc 2.2.2-4 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)
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