Quote Originally Posted by dmantione
Quote Originally Posted by WILL
But Debian, as far as I know has gotten a lot better at this. Plus they are often up to date with everything. AND they have a Lazarus package that I believe is up to date! (Laz ppl correct me if I'm wrong on this?)
Debian and up to date?! They are still shipping fpc 1.9.4!
(sorry for going off-topic again...)

It's not so bad --- It's 2.0.0 in etch (testing distribution). 1.9.4 is in sarge (stable). It's normal that stable distribution doesn't have most up-to-date software as it's frozen.

But actually it is bad --- why 2.0.0, not 2.0.2 ? I don't know, most probably the maintainer doesn't have enough time... I guess that someone who is familiar with creating Debian packages and has some time should just go and offer help, see http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fpc.html.