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