[Pkg-pascal-devel] Bug#997948: Bug#997948: FPC should provide a way to trigger automatic rebuild of

[Abou Al Montacir]

On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 10:10 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> This sounds very aggressive as I think most of the time it's unneeded. 
> As a release manager I prefer an *almost* good situation over a much 
> overly strict situation. Maybe autopkgtests can help? If we block 
> migration in situation where the rebuild should have happened, we're good.
Then we are back to fpc-abi-* and friends..
We will add +p1, +p2, ... each time we introduce a patch that breaks interface.
However, this may require extra work from maintainers who should check for
interfaces CRC after each new patch.

However, fpc units are kind of statically linked libraries. And in this case,
one ma want a rebuild of all reverse dependencies in order to ensure a bug fix
is propagated on all binaries.

Example: Suppose we discover a vulnerability in a unit. We want that all units
and all programs that use it be rebuilt, no?
-- 
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir
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