On 03-10-13 22:38, peter green wrote: > Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: >> Package: fpc >> Severity: important >> >> fp-units-gfx-2.6.2 uses svgalib, which is scheduled for removal >> from the archive. Please disable it and drop the build-dep on >> libsvga1-dev. >> > Sorry for not responding to this bug earlier
And sorry for me not responding earlier. I have been working on fpc last week/weekend and probably get something reasonable next week. > The practice adopted by the fpc package so-far has been to let the > upstream build process build these import units regardless of whether or > not debian supplies the corresponding libraries. If the libraries are in > debian we depend on them to make things work out of the box but if the > libraries aren't present in debian we just leave it up to the users to > work out how to get the libraries they need to actually make use of the > import units. > > As such if noone objects I intend to remove the dependency on svgalib > and make no other changes. Well, *I* don't like that. As discussed not so long ago, I consider it the task of the maintainer (and I start to consider myself fpc maintainer as well) to make sure the package works in Debian. That includes making sure that dependencies/recommends are properly in place. As such, I think that making sure we don't build stuff that people can't easily use is the right thing to do. Anyway, either way we go, I really think we should document these ideas really clearly in the README.Debian. I myself was surprised to find this out recently when I packaged view3dscene. Paul
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