Bug#858890: gnat-6: missing dependency on the gcc package ?

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

Control: reassign -1 gnat

confirmed. gnat should depend on gcc. However this package is almost always
installed with the build-essential package.

On 28.03.2017 11:22, Adrien Panay wrote:
> Package: gnat-6
> Version: 6.3.0-10
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I encountered this issue on a newly installed system while performing
> basic ada programming, a simple hello world triggers the following
> situation.
> 
> What led up to the situation?
>   Installing gnat and trying to compile a simple hello world program:
> 
>   sudo aptitude install gnat
>   gnatmake -gnatyy hello_world
> 
> What was the outcome of this action?
>   Here is the output of the above call to gnatmake:
> 
>   gcc -c hello_world.adb
>   gnatmake: error, unable to locate gcc
> 
> What outcome did you expect instead?
>   Once my issue fixed, here is the expected output:
> 
>   gcc -c -gnatyy hello_world.adb
>   gnatbind -x hello_world.ali
>   gnatlink hello_world.ali
> 
> What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> ineffective)?
>   My first attempt was to tune the gnatmake command :
> 
>   gnatmake --GCC=gcc-6 \
>            --GNATLINK='gnatlink --GCC=gcc-6' \
>            -gnatyy hello_world
> 
>   Pretty heavy isn't it ? But this did the job. Then I figured out
>   that the gcc package, which provides /usr/bin/gcc, wasn't present.
>   Installing it also solve this issue.
> 
> Anyhow, thanks for this package in particular and great job on debian
> in general !
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 9.0
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> 
> Versions of packages gnat-6 depends on:
> ii  gcc-6        6.3.0-10
> ii  gcc-6-base   6.3.0-10
> ii  libc6        2.24-9
> ii  libc6-dev    2.24-9
> ii  libgmp10     2:6.1.2+dfsg-1
> ii  libgnat-6    6.3.0-10
> ii  libgnatprj6  6.3.0-10
> ii  libgnatvsn6  6.3.0-10
> ii  libisl15     0.18-1
> ii  libmpc3      1.0.3-1+b2
> ii  libmpfr4     3.1.5-1
> ii  zlib1g       1:1.2.8.dfsg-5
> 
> gnat-6 recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages gnat-6 suggests:
> ii  ada-reference-manual-2012  1:2012.2-9
> pn  gnat-6-doc                 <none>
> pn  gnat-6-sjlj                <none>
> 
> -- no debconf information
>