Bug#355154: libgnat-3.4: insatisfiable depends in unstable

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Ludovic Brenta writes:
> "Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com> writes:
> > On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 06:57:38PM +0100, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> >> GNAT is no longer being built from gcc-3.4.  No package depends on
> >> libgnat-3.4. 
> >
> > Sorry, that's wrong:
> >
> > Reverse Depends: 
> >   music123,libgnat-3.4 3.4.4
> 
> I believe this can be fixed quite easily.  Open a bug against music123
> to ask the maintainer to use the default Ada compiler.  This package
> violates the Debian Policy for Ada :)

sounds sensible

> >   gnat-3.4,libgnat-3.4 3.4.5-2
> >   gnat-3.4,libgnat-3.4 3.4.1-3
> 
> These don't count.
> 
> >   ghdl,libgnat-3.4 3.4.1-3
> 
> ghdl is a VHDL front-end to GCC, and so depends on a particular
> version of the GCC back-end.  Since it is written in Ada, it requires
> the Ada run-time.  Strangely, upstream's latest version, 0.21, uses
> GCC 4.0.2 as its back-end, and 0.21 is in unstable.  How come it still
> requires libgnat-3.4 in Debian?  Sounds like a case for another bug.
> 
> Matthias, what do you suggest?

yes, and maybe point out, that you'll go for gnat-4.1 as the gnat
compiler in etch.

  Matthias