[Bug 376532] Re: Free Pascal and Lazurus Install on Ubuntu Hardy Heron

[Paul Gevers]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
Ubuntu better.

There are several points I want to say in response to your bug report.

1) The FPC and Lazarus maintainer is packaging for Debian and does not
actively solve or investigate Ubuntu related issues. Apparently nobody
in the Ubuntu community really cared for FPC and Lazarus. See especially
bug 275688, FPC should be removed from Hardy or updated, but nothing is
happening. I will in the future make sure that bugs are forwarded to the
Debian bugtracker.

2) Mainly because of bug 275688 in upstream, FPC changed a bit from
version 2.2.0 to 2.2.2. Everybody in the outside world expects that we
have moved on from 2.2.0, so problem with FPC in Ubuntu of Intrepid and
before are really for Ubuntu to solve.

3) If a .deb from anywhere but Ubuntu gives you problems, you are quite
on your own as far as Ubuntu is concerned. The Ubuntu project can not
support or fix packages from others. Please report the bug to the
provider of the software package, but keep in mind that for most
packagers the state of Hardy is too old to actively fix bugs for.

4) Because I had issues with FPC and Lazarus when building my package
WinFF, I have newer versions of FPC and Lazarus available in my PPA [1]
for Hardy and Intrepid. You can use those if it helps you (instructions
for using a PPA are available at [1]).

5) I like to understand your problems, because in Intrepid (which I used
before) and Jaunty I did not have problems, so it looks like things have
improved. Could you provide me with some relevant links to bugs, because
I don't see many here on Launchpad.

[1] https://launchpad.net/~paul-climbing/+archive/ppa

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