Re: About GVD

[Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:23, Jérôme Marant wrote:
>   Some not-yet-debian-developer intends to adopt GVD (the GNU Visual
> Debugger), a graphical debugger written in Ada95 (frontend to gdb), that
> helps debugging C, C++ and Ada95.
>   However, it seems that he doesn't know a word of Ada95.
>   It is reasonnable for him to adopt the package?

Depends, if he's just bought some Ada95 text books and plans to learn it 
quickly, and if he has a lot of experience in other programming languages 
then he would probably do a good job.

IMHO if you can't debug upstream bugs then you will not be able to do a good 
job of maintaining a package.

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