From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,9ec713ce3532e449 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!b14g2000yqd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in Debian: gnat-4.4 is in unstable; please test Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:53:19 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <12f17dd9-2e75-40a8-a591-7628756e1772@b14g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.98.68.197 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1248961999 26145 127.0.0.1 (30 Jul 2009 13:53:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:53:19 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b14g2000yqd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=153.98.68.197; posting-account=pcLQNgkAAAD9TrXkhkIgiY6-MDtJjIlC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009012111 Red Hat/3.0.6-1.el5 Firefox/3.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7445 Date: 2009-07-30T06:53:19-07:00 List-Id: I wrote on comp.lang.ada: > My plan for the next release of Debian, code-named Squeeze, is as > follows: > > 2009-02-15: Debian 5.0 "Lenny" released > 2009-07-28: gnat-4.4 reaches unstable > 2009-09-30: libgnat-4.4 ABI freeze; start of transition of all Ada > packages > 2010-02-15: end of support for Debian 4.0 "Etch" (i.e. Lenny+12 > months) > 2010-02-28: end of transition and, probably, freeze of all packages in > Debian > 2010-03-*: removal of gnat-4.3 > sometime between 2010-08 and 2011-02: release of Squeeze, i.e. between > 18 and 24 months after Lenny. I'm sorry but I'll have to change this plan drastically. The recent announcement of the new two-year time-based release schedule[1] caught me by surprise, especially the fact that Squeeze will actually have a one-year release schedule :( [1] http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090729 This leaves only 4 months to complete the transition of all Debian packages. Because of this, I'm officially abandoning my goal of providing support for multi-arch (32 and 64-bit) and cross compilers in Squeeze and I will shorten the time for compiler testing. The new schedule is: 2009-07-28: gnat-4.4 reaches unstable. Immediate start of transition for other packages. 2009-08-31: libgnat-4.4 ABI freeze and re-upload of dependent packages as necessary. 2009-09-30: compiler freeze. 2009-11-30: end of transition and package freeze (release-critical bug fixes still allowed). 2010-12-31: gnat-4.3 removed from Debian. It is possible that I cannot complete the transition of all packages due to lack of time (remember: I'm a volunteer working on my spare time on Debian!). In such an event, I will request *REMOVAL* of some packages from Debian. The packages that have a Request for Help or Request for Adoption bug open against them will be the first packages dropped; they are: gnat-gps (RFH: http://bugs.debian.org/496905) libtexttools (RFA: http://bugs.debian.org/477474) gnade (RFA: http://bugs.debian.org/496787) So, if you use or have any interest in those packages, please help with the transition. You do not have to be a Debian Developer to help or even to adopt a package officially. If I do not receive any help, I will conclude that nobody is interested enough to justify the effort and simply drop the packages mentioned. -- Ludovic Brenta.