Florian Weimer <[email protected]> writes: > * Björn Persson: > >> I see that there is no Gnade package in Jessie. I use Gnade in a >> program, so now I'm trying to decide how to proceed. It might help if I >> knew why the package was dropped. Was there some problem that prevented >> it from working, or was it simply because no one was interested in >> maintaining it? > > I think it was due to this bug: > > <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=708885>
No, the maintainer of gnade could have fixed this bug easily, if there were a maintainer. The real reason was that the maintainer lost interest and very few people used the package, to begin with. See https://bugs.debian.org/673750 > The removal request is somewhat confusing, it implies there was an > FTBFS issue with more recent GNAT as well (because why would this > block the gnat-4.4 removal?): > > <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754525> That's only due to the nature of Ada and its consequences in the Debian Policy for Ada: packages must be rebuilt and change names with each major release of GNAT. See https://people.debian.org/~lbrenta/debian-ada-policy.html#Library-names-and-packaging-structure -- Ludovic Brenta. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
