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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: A proposal for Debian policy for Ada
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Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 14:23:33 +0200
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On Wed, 19 May 2010 03:41:06 -0700 (PDT), Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 May 2010 05:22:35 -0400, Stephen Leake wrote:
>>> As Ludovic points out, that does not cover the entire Linux Ada community.
>>
>> We need not to cover it, we need those who maintain distributions. Even
>> less than that, only those who determine policy rules for Ada. It is likely
>> less than one dozen.
> 
> Dmitry, I like it when people have grandiose ideas on how to change
> the world but I like it better when they actually do it.  So please,
> now that you've identified the problem pretty well, go ahead and send
> the invitations.

I am not a maintainer, not even a regular Linux user. If maintainers don't
want it, then they don't. No need for other reasons. After all there is the
Linux Standard Base project. In ten years they may come up with something,
and then force Ada maintainers to something more usable.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de