On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 12:36 AM Stephane Carrez <[email protected]> wrote:
> The benefit of Alire is that it gives you access to more than 280 Ada > libraries > and tools. There is a growing community and adoption by some Ada > developers. > (See https://ada-lang.io/ and https://gitter.im/ada-lang/Alire) > > The alternative to Alire is to ask Ada developers to make and promote > their project as Debian package but I'm afraid this requires a lot of work. > Something that has been in the back of my mind also since the beginnings of the project is that I hope it should be relatively straightforward to generate Debian packages from Alire's metadata for someone familiar with Debian's Ada policy. If not, I would be interested in knowing about the obstacles. It would be great if Alire could give back to Debian, I have been a direct or indirect user since many years ago. Álex.
