Well, In my opinion anything base on the older versions is not supported by 
FPC, and we prefer you remove them from Ubuntu versions that are not worth 
fixing, rather than relicense them.   We didn't remove all older releases from 
our own site lightly, and the risk on confusion is too big.

Also because it would not be fair to the other party in the copyright
dispute to have these versions longer in circulation in any form, the
reengineering of the disputed code took quite long, and the FPC release
that fixes it is also already over 4 months old.

Moreover the relicensing option also was not properly verified or
communicated with them, and just something proposed on the maillist, so
you would do this on your own peril, and Ubuntu, and Ubuntu alone would
be responsible for the consequences since FPC removed all disputed
sources from its servers, and no longer distributes them.

In summary, I don't think relicensing is a serious option, it is simply
too sensitive legally, and the GPL option never should have mentioned,
since not verified by legal council or with the other party.

With respect to the building problems, could it be that the build system
is poluted with an older install ? A FPC build should be always the
same, so the logical conclusion is that there is something different on
the buildmachines. (IOW a different version installed to bootstrap, one
a full version, one only the cmdline compiler)

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Please sync fpc 2.2.2-4 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/275688
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