<html><head></head><body><div>Hi Paul,</div><div><br></div><div>On Wed, 2016-02-24 at 20:23 +0100, Paul Gevers wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>Hi
On 24-02-16 08:19, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
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Normally you need to checkout the fpcbuild repository and just replace
debian folder by the one from our git. If things did not diverge too
much it should work.
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One of the problems is that nowadays we carry quite some patches. We
</pre></blockquote><div>Yes indeed there are many patches and we need to reduce their number in order to ease transitions.</div><div>However many of them are already applied on upstream trunk.</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>should be more aggressive on upstreaming them, but my luck with that is
</pre></blockquote><div>There is no special interest for upstream in Debian. As we lack a person pushing on upstream side this will not help.</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>limited. In the past, I was hoping that you, Abou, would be doing that
but it looks like I was not quite right on your interests (trying to
make that a bit clearer by stating this and hoping for a response).</pre><pre></pre></blockquote><div><pre><div style="font-family: Cantarell; white-space: normal;">In the far past I used to be active upstream and thus pushed many patches. Nowadays I don't even have the time to read mails on FPC core mailing list, so I don't feel much confident in asking others to do the job I should do. It is even worse than my situation with Debian due to lack of time.</div><div style="font-family: Cantarell; white-space: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Cantarell; white-space: normal;">Now I still have commit access to FPC trunk and I did use it today to sync debian directory. Normally having the tonight snapshots sources of trunk and typing make deb will build Debian packages. I also fixed all patches there. I just failed to build because I don't have 3.0.0 installed on my laptop and don't have time to setup a sid chroot.</div><div style="font-family: Cantarell; white-space: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Cantarell; white-space: normal;">Now for my particular interest , I'm still interested in Pascal as my first programming language, however du to more responsibilities in my new job I really lack time to contribute. However from time to time, and for special cases like this, I force my self to take a few hours to help. Please don't hesitate to push me if you really think you can not do it yourself easily. </div><div style="font-family: Cantarell; white-space: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Cantarell; white-space: normal;">For now this list is the only one I read regularly, but sometimes with few days of lag, so you may expect late answers but still you will got them.</div><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Cantarell; white-space: normal;"></blockquote></pre><pre>--
Cheers,
Abou Al Montacir</pre></div></body></html>