minor change in the Debian Policy for Ada
Hello.
During the gnat-10 transition, the release team suggested a change in
order to help the automatic migration from unstable to testing of all
Ada packages at once.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=975589#24
Currently, the policy requires that
Package: lib...-dev
Depends: gnat, gnat-X
The suggestion is to replace this with:
Depends: gnat (>= X), gnat (<< X+1)
This seems equivalent.
Unless someone objects, I suggest to update the policy.
Then, I intend to try the following changes in experimental.
* libxmlada gprbuild: change ada:Depends in debian/rules
* dh-ada-library: change ada:Depends in src/dh_ada_library.adb.
Let’s say the new version is 7.5.
If all tests pass, the following changes seem trivial enough to be
part of the collective reupload to unstable.
* adasockets plplpto: manually edit the dependency
* for each library that Build-Depends: dh-sequence-ada-library,
simply add Build-Depends: dh-ada-library (>= 7.5).
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