> >> I would love to be a maintainer and build .deb files, however I do not >> own a 64 bit CPU and can't afford one at the moment because it would >> also mean a new motherboard and RAM too, so that crosses me out pretty >> much. In fact, I really would love to see Free Pascal packages in the >> Ubuntu universe repositories in the future. > the source package is already there. The problem is that the autobuilders > can't build it (because of the recursive build dep issue) and there seem > to be very few people who have permission to upload manually built > packages in ubuntu. > > IMO it would be a good idea to restructure the debian packaging of fpc to > include starting compilers as part of the source. What do others think?
Only for new cpu targets a manual upload is needed. The debian buildd's work fine with current .deb. They install the latest available fp-compiler and can then build the new .deb. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
