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On Monday, 20 August 2012 08:34:38 UTC+1, Dmitry A. Kazakov  wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:39:56 +0200, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > I suggest you concentrate on one thing and only one, then.  If you are
> 
> > interested in Debian packaging, fine, let that be your one area of
> 
> > expertise.  If you'd rather learn Ada and develop programs with it, I
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> > suggest you install Debian stable (possibly in a chroot or VirtualBox)
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> > and forget about all these pesky issues.  I've decided to concentrate on
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> > packaging precisely so that others, especially beginners, can
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> > concentrate on programming.
> 
> 
> 
> Absolutely. Packaged Ada for Debian and Fedora is a great relief to the
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> situation of not so distant times when GNAT GPL was the only, very
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> uncomfortable, option for Linux.
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> 
> 
> Yet, there is still the problem that people wishing to make their work
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> available to public must nonetheless dive deep down into the mess of dbpkg
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> and rpmbuild. Something should be done about it. If we could not bring
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> Linux Ada policies in order, we should have some backend for the GPR which
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> would automate packaging.
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> 
> 
> -- 
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> Regards,
> 
> Dmitry A. Kazakov
> 
> http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

In deed, the work both you and Xavier do on Gnat Ada / polyorb on Debian is not just important for learners, but critical for folk  like me using it.