From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,47bc8b783af4aa38,start X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!s31g2000yqs.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RFC: Debian Policy for Ada, Fourth Edition for Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:36:16 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 94.108.207.81 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1255887377 10417 127.0.0.1 (18 Oct 2009 17:36:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:36:17 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s31g2000yqs.googlegroups.com; posting-host=94.108.207.81; posting-account=pcLQNgkAAAD9TrXkhkIgiY6-MDtJjIlC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009091008 Iceweasel/3.0.14 (Debian-3.0.14-1),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8719 Date: 2009-10-18T10:36:16-07:00 List-Id: Over the past month, Stephe Leake and I have put in a lot of effort towards updating the Debian Policy for Ada[1]. We think we have reached a state where the new policy is almost ready and so I have published a draft[2] of the next edition. I would like to call upon every interested party to read the new draft and send us their comments. [1] http://people.debian.org/~lbrenta/debian-ada-policy.pdf [2] http://people.debian.org/~lbrenta/debian-ada-policy4draft1.pdf The Debian Policy for Ada is what sets Debian's support for Ada apart from the rest. It has served us well over the past three releases of Debian: 3.1 "Sarge", released in June 2005; 4.0 "Etch" in April 2007; and 5.0 "Lenny" in February 2009. The biggest change to the Policy is that it now requires that every - dev package for an Ada library include the version number of the library in its name. For example, "libaws-dev" should become "libaws2.5-dev" to comply with this policy. The draft document explains the reasons behind this decision in great detail. However, if you can propose a scheme that avoids the need for this change, please speak up. In related news, the Debian release managers have just proposed[3] a freeze in March 2010; this means that the maintainers of Ada packages now have 5 months to migrate all the packages to gnat-4.4. This migration will start in earnest. As usual, I reiterate my call for contributions: if you use one of the Ada packages in Debian, please consider helping the maintainer with the transition. [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/10/msg00002.html Happy hacking! -- Ludovic Brenta.