Re: gnat-4.9 4.9.0-1 uploaded to unstable

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

xavier grave wrote:
> In the Holy Debian Ada Policy [1] it is stated that
> Rule: The project file SHALL have
>
>     a Source_Dirs attribute containing at least
> /usr/share/ada/adainclude/LIBRARY.
>     a Library_ALI_Dir equal to /usr/lib/ada/adalib/LIBRARY.
>     a Library_Name attribute equal to the library name of the shared 
> library.
>     a Library_Kind attribute equal to ‘dynamic’.
>     a Library_Dir attribute equal to /usr/lib.
>     an Externally_Built attribute equal to ‘true’.
>
> I'm wondering if the Library_Kind attribute constraint can be changed 
> to :
>    a Library_Kind attribute equal to External ("LIBRARY_KIND", 
> dynamic);
>
> It will allow for static linking for development.

This might be a good idea.  Could you give it a try on libxmlezout and
report back how well it works?  If then we can sanctify a
"clarification" to the Holy Debian Ada Policy :)

--
Ludovic Brenta.