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Hi Ludovic

WOW! this reallllly sucks. Your hard work is not being propagated down stream then.

I like Debain stable but unfortunately I only spend < 1% of my time with Ada and have to think about other issues. I had some trouble migrating emails to Debian-Debian and a bunch of other little things that are totally off topic.

Some downstream distros offer other things. I like Trisquel for instance. It a free-to-the-Nth-degree distro. They have no binary blobs in the kernel and many other things like flash are removed.

Unfortunately gnat + gcc are pretty old and pretty screwed and I encountered bugs I wouldn't have had an issue with on Debian stable.

I wonder if there is a test suite to run on all the gnat* packages? I could run it. I know VirtualBox is heavy but I could also run it on OpenIndiana(open Solaris fork) and Windoze too.

I am pretty overloaded(ended up in emergency department twice in the past 3 weeks) but I would like to help. If there was any assignments you had for me, I would do my best to help