On Sat, 21 May 2011 11:47:28 +0200 Bernd Kreuss <prof7...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 21.05.2011 11:29, Mattias Gaertner wrote: > > On Sat, 21 May 2011 12:12:59 +0300 > > "Juha (gmail)" <juha.mannine...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> [...] > >>> When trying to update the new lazarus and fpc binaries with deb packages I > >>> got in trouble with dependancies. Then I abort it. > > > > What troubles? > > The thing I have never understood is why it split into a myriad of > different .deb files Because of Debian policies. The deb package are made for the repositories, so the number of packages are irrelevant. You install one and automatically get all needed. > while it really only needs to be the following: > > * lazarus.deb > * fpc.deb > * fpc-source.deb > > and maybe even alternatively for lazy people like me something like > > * lazarus-complete.deb (provides: lazarus, fpc, fpc-source) Theoretically we could provide an extra set of deb packages (or maybe just one). But they will bite the standard ones, so this opens another can of worms. > I'm not sure about the exact entries in the deb control files (provides, > depends, replaces, etc.) to achieve this magic but I think it should be > possible, shouldn't it? Yes, but it is continuous work. I doubt that the debian package maintainers will do it. Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
