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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Distro with the best Ada development environment?
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:32:15 -0700 (PDT)
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On Apr 15, 11:29=A0am, Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauh...@futureapps.de>
wrote:
> Ludovic Brenta schrieb:
>
> > Xavier Grave wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> >> To have a full list, just install a Debian or ask Ludovic Brenta who i=
s
> >> responsible for Ada in Debian.
>
> > There is an overview of most Ada distributions in the Ada Programming
> > wikibook[1]. =A0Indeed, I am responsible for most of Ada in Debian whic=
h
> > is TTBOMK the only distribution with a consistent policy for Ada.
>
> FYI, there are a few, uhm, instabilities in 64bit Debian-based
> installations (Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS server, i.e. not Debian),

There have been reports of breakage in dependencies between Ada
packages on Ubuntu. As you say, Ubuntu is not Debian.

> gdb issues, and lo and behold, even a segfault when running
> 64bit Spark tools. =A0See also gcc:#39264, Ubuntu:#219342.
[...]

I'm curious to know whether or not these bugs also affect Debian 5.0.
Could you try it?

Meanwhile, I'm happy to see the number of installation reports for
Debian's gnat-4.3 skyrocketing[1]. This number does not include *buntu
installations.

[1]
http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=3Dgnat+gnat-4.1+gnat-4.3&sho=
w_installed=3Don&want_legend=3Don&want_ticks=3Don&from_date=3D&to_date=3D&h=
lght_date=3D&date_fmt=3D%25Y-%25m&beenhere=3D1

--
Ludovic Brenta.