Bug#679950: compressor
I'm not that deep into debian packaging issues but:
the helpfile compiler is a single binary file (chmcmd) without any
dependencies (not even libc). The resulting package would in general
even be debian cross-version. It should be enough to extract the binary
from the relevant FPC package and put it in its own, needing only update
on FPC version changes. So very low rundepends. (excuse my FreeBSD speak)
It should not become a drag on FPC upgrade ability though, so maybe some
decoupling of the resulting package from the current FPC version would
be nice.
The builddepends is essentially the same as the cumulative build
dependencies of the fpc-chm package (fpc starting compiler, nearly
entire FPC source archive, mostly built in one big go).
The CHM package is not entirely portable, it won't work on architectures
that raise exceptions on misalignment (like ARM). Some simple testing
was done with bigendian (powerpc) systems and that seemed to mostly
work, but I expect a closer inspection to reveal minor bugs.
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