Re: May I ask why Gnade was dropped?

To: Björn Persson <Bjorn@xn--rombobjrn-67a.se>
Cc: debian-ada@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: May I ask why Gnade was dropped?
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2015 17:57:36 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 87d217qznz.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20150607155504.08299553@hactar.xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> ("Björn Persson"'s message of "Sun, 7 Jun 2015 15:55:04 +0200")
References: <[🔎] 20150607155504.08299553@hactar.xn--rombobjrn-67a.se>

* Björn Persson:

> I see that there is no Gnade package in Jessie. I use Gnade in a
> program, so now I'm trying to decide how to proceed. It might help if I
> knew why the package was dropped. Was there some problem that prevented
> it from working, or was it simply because no one was interested in
> maintaining it?

I think it was due to this bug:

  <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=708885>

The removal request is somewhat confusing, it implies there was an
FTBFS issue with more recent GNAT as well (because why would this
block the gnat-4.4 removal?):

  <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754525>

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