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Developer feedback: "Rust is so much better in this regard, I couldn't get Free Pascal to build my old code on Linux. So I rewrote it in Rust."

Reality: Developer installed the wrong Debian package, resulting a partial Free Pascal Compiler setup, that lacked the package needed for the build.

Solution: Installed the correct package. Build is immediately fixed.

Takeaway: If you try hard enough, you can even fix missing Debian packages with Rust. But you probably shouldn't.

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