Bug#908931: transition: gnat-8, Ada component of gcc-8
Control: tags -1 confirmed
Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/gnat-8.html
On 16/09/2018 10:16, Nicolas Boulenguez wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Ada packages Build-Depend: gnat, a virtual package Depending on the
> default compiler.
> In unstable, gnat/7.1 Depends: gnat-7.
> In experimental, gnat/8.0.0 Depends: gnat-8.
>
> In addition, Ada libraries directly Build-Depend: "gnat-VERSION",
> which also provides what could be expected in libgnat-8-dev if such a
> package existed.
>
> In this language, each change in the source of a library or its
> recursive dependencies requires a renaming of the -dev package.
> All reverse dependencies must then update their Build-Depends.
> The update to gnat-8 requires a renaming of all -dev packages,
> in addition to the traditional change of Shared Object Version.
>
> In order to reduce the number of such slow transitions, many unrelated
> changes (like new upstream releases) have been introduced with a
> single new name for the -dev package.
>
> Now, everything seems ready.
Go ahead.
Cheers,
Emilio
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