Re: GNAT packages in Linux distributions

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

"Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> writes:

> Le Sun, 09 May 2010 23:26:10 +0200, Ludovic Brenta
> <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> a écrit:
>>> Whatever reasons might be, they aren't good. (:-()
>>
>> Oh no?  What about top-secret Ada code from the military that triggers a
>> bug in GNAT?
> Yes, every one can understand that and probably did think about that
> while reading your words. However, a patch does not expose any private
> data,  unless you claim some details all over the worlds.
>
> I'm pretty sure this is more a matter of GPL vs Pro than a matter of
> privacy (what privacy may be violated with a bug correction ?)

The bug database includes the code that triggers the bug.

It might be possible to expose only the fixes to public purview, but
even the descriptions of the bug might contain some private information.
It would take a lot of manual effort to present a "clean" public view.
I'd rather AdaCore spend that effort on improving the tools.

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-- Stephe