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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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