Hi Breno
On 07/26/2014 10:15 PM, Breno Leitao wrote:
> On 07/24/2014 06:20 PM, Reto Buerki wrote:
>> On 07/24/2014 10:21 PM, Breno Leitao wrote:
>>> This is a bug that is impacting ppc64el bootstrap also.
>>>
>>> My recomendantion is to keep just a build-depend on gnat, unless you have
>>> strict
>>> dependency of version 4.6, which is not the case in 90% of the packages that
>>> depends on version 4.6
>>
>> Your recommendation violates the Debian policy for Ada, section 4,
>> second rule.
> That is right, sorry about it. Can you help me to understand how to proceed
> then?
I will transition pcscada and all my other Ada packages to gnat-4.9 soon
(when I finally find some time).
> I understand that there are two cases here, for general packages that depends
> on gnat.
>
> a) The package that depends on gnat version 4.6 specifically.
> b) A package that depend on gnat, but not necessarily from version 4.6, it can
> build and run on later gnat version, as 4.9.
>
> Based on these two cases, what is the case for pcscada?
>
> I understand that the a case should always depend on gnat-4.6, and if the
> architecture doesn't contain that specific version, then the package will
> never be
> compiled for that architeceture.
>
> Also, how to handle the b case, if it is depending on version 4.6 right now?
> They
> should be upgraded to depend on a more recent version every time there is a
> gnat
> release?
Not a GNAT release but a transition to a new compiler for a Debian
release cycle. Jessie will be gnat-4.9, so all Ada packages need to be
transitioned before the freeze.
A good place to ask questions about Debian and Ada is [1].
Regards,
- reto
[1] - https://lists.debian.org/debian-ada/
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