Re: Some important packages have been orphaned
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 09:41:24AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> GNAT is maintained by ACT, and this company gives a priority to its
> customers so most of the bugs that were found in the public
> release have probably already been fixed.
Hmmmm. I am surprised that noone else has encountered the 2 bugs
I have in gnat 3.14p.
As for gnat 3.1, certain floating point operations are next to useless.
I could work around this by using the libc functions for sin, cos, etc,
but this seems a bit silly.
(however, strangely enough, the actual source code is identical in both
versions).
> Now that the way of handling public releases has changed, I still
> don't know how it is going to happen, i.e. what will be the
> frequency of CVS commits for bugfixes. AFAIK, Laurent Guerby is
> working on setting up ACATS tests. Many questions.
>
> They're preparing a patch for gdb in order to make gnat 3.1 programs
> being debuggable with it.
Good.
Does this mean though that all work is now being concentrated on
Gnat 3.1, and not the older 3.14p?
(I am still a bit confused which version I should be trying to get
fixed).
> > I have filed bugs reports both in Debian (gnat and gnat-3.1) and
> > upstream (gnat-3.1), but so far no response from upstream. I did get
> > a response from the Debian maintainers, but they can't be expected to
> > solve upstream's problems.
>
> I think the gcc ML is now the place for reporting bugs, you already know
> that.
Actually I used the BTS system for reporting gcc bugs. See bugs 6910 and
6911 or Debian Bugs 147145 and 148529 (respectively). The gcc BTS bugs
<URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl> are linked with the Debian
BTS bug entries.
I haven't reported the bug specific to gnat 3.14p upstream though.
Should I?
> Why not maintaining those packages in team, via CVS like the way it is
> done currently with gcc and glibc.
> In my opinion, this would increase quality of packages, avoiding them
> to be unmaintained for some time.
Sounds like a good idea.
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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