Debian GNAT 4.7, status?

Debian GNAT 4.7, status?

[Dmitry A. Kazakov]

Any soon?

P.S. I am asking because yesterday I discovered a severe bug in Debian's
GNAT 4.6 (compiler freeze). Fedora is already 4.7 and there is no bug.

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Re: Debian GNAT 4.7, status?

[Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)]

Le Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:10:15 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov  
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a écrit:

> Any soon?
>
> P.S. I am asking because yesterday I discovered a severe bug in Debian's
> GNAT 4.6 (compiler freeze). Fedora is already 4.7 and there is no bug.
>

I had the same question, and Ludovic suggested to either do with 4.6,  
either switch to Debian unstable, or wait for at least 2013-03.

See:  
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/comp.lang.ada/6CbIsQ21GRw

Le Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:26:21 +0200, Ludovic Brenta  
<ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> a écrit:
> I recommend you not wait for gnat-4.7 or gnat-4.8, sorry.  Also if you
> want to minimize the waiting, switch to Debian unstable because gnat-4.7
> will appear there first.
>
> I've started work on gnat-4.7 but it will be some time before it is in a
> state where I can upload to unstable.  How much time, I cannot tell as I
> do all of this in my spare time.  Even then it is possible that I decide
> that gnat-4.8 will be the next default compiler in Debian 8 "Jessie".
> I'll make that decision around March 2013, after GCC 4.8 is released.


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Re: Debian GNAT 4.7, status?

[Simon Wright]

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

> I had the same question, and Ludovic suggested to either do with 4.6,
> either switch to Debian unstable, or wait for at least 2013-03.

Unstable still has 4.6 at the moment.

Re: Debian GNAT 4.7, status?

[Ludovic Brenta]

Dmitry A. Kazakov writes on comp.lang.ada:
> Any soon?
>
> P.S. I am asking because yesterday I discovered a severe bug in Debian's
> GNAT 4.6 (compiler freeze). Fedora is already 4.7 and there is no bug.

I uploaded 4.7.2-1~exp1 to experimental (which you must install on top
of unstable) a couple of days ago.  The packages are still in the NEW
queue pending manual review and approval.  And because this is
experimental, this compiler is for experimental purposes only and no
libraries, besides libgnat, built with it.

I don't think I'll spend much time working on 4.7, Debian 8 "Jessie"
will probably have 4.8 (or later) instead.

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Ludovic Brenta.