Re: Ada packages

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> writes:

> Hi Goswin,
> powerpc.  While most of the other packages build, I think they would
> require at least some run-time testing before being declared good
> enough for Debian.

Can you get yourself an account on one of debians amd64 machines?

> However, I am more than willing to integrate your patches so that Ada
> packages can be supported on more architectures, if you agree to help
> maintain them (I am looking for a co-maintainer for additional

I have absolutely no clue about ada and I fear none of the others are
ada users. Never written a single line of code or even read code. The
intrest is more promptet by the effort to get all debian debs compiled
so packages are ready for testing if anybody intrested shows up. The
Debian-amd64 can certainly test things on a case by case basis but if
we start to comaintain all of the 8000 packages nothing will get done
anymore.

> packages and architectures, BTW).  I think that having GCC 3.3 as an
> alternative where GNAT 3.15p is not supported is reasonable.  It is

Ok, I will try to test the packages and then send the patches to use
gnat-3.3 on amd64 to the BTS.

> even better if you are prepared to switch to GCC 3.4 when it reaches
> unstable (it is currently in experimental due to ABI changes, as you
> certainly know).

We hope to switch to gcc 3.4 as soon as it enters sid. It has major
improvements for amd64 I hear. So using gcc 3.4 for ada should be a no
brainer.

> [1] http://libre.act-europe.fr/gnat
> [2] http://users.skynet.be/ludovic.brenta/debian-ada-policy.html
>
> PS. I have copied Matthias Klose, my ever so trusting sponsor.
>
> -- 
> Ludovic Brenta.

MfG
        Goswin