On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Torsten Werner wrote:
please have a look at <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=413805>. The package lazarus requires the sources of free pascal because it parses them. The obvious solution is to create a binary package fpc-source shipping the sources and add a Depends or Recommends to lazarus. This is similar to other packages like emacs lisp, java, and erlang.
I completely fail to see any reason to reject a solution that fixes
a serious bug (well #413805 is tagged wishlist but this is definitely
wrong - it should be serious because lazarus just does not work
without fpc-sources).
Kind regards
Andreas.
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