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,b2c4d98cbc17f0a9 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A proposal for Debian policy for Ada References: <87aarzd14c.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <198miwzl97pnl$.1onmpwoadjr1p.dlg@40tude.net> <87632ncxjg.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <9vgayrtxydx3.y97a4jp28sin$.dlg@40tude.net> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 04:00:40 -0400 Message-ID: <821vd91vx3.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Gcc4dgeH8KyS/cny5Z5uXPN8RbI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: 8b1664bf2493be197caa710024 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11703 Date: 2010-05-18T04:00:40-04:00 List-Id: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" writes: > BTW, is it possible to have one united Ada policy for all Linux > distributions? First you have to enumerate "all Linux distributions"; I don't know how to do that. > Linux Ada community is small, all people are known. Known to whom? Where do I find that list of people? > Can't we use this as an advantage here? It might be possible, if we can get everyone together. Certainly Linux distributions that are derived from Debian should simply use the Debian Ada policy. We could define "Linux Ada community" as "people who respond to this post"; that is at least a practical working definition. I doubt it matches reality. -- -- Stephe