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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!e11g2000yqo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Ada in Debian: gnat-4.4 is in unstable; please test Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:59:08 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.98.68.197 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1248807548 24354 127.0.0.1 (28 Jul 2009 18:59:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:59:08 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e11g2000yqo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=153.98.68.197; posting-account=pcLQNgkAAAD9TrXkhkIgiY6-MDtJjIlC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:7382 Date: 2009-07-28T11:59:08-07:00 List-Id: My plan for the next release of Debian, code-named Squeeze, is as follows: 2009-02-15: Debian 5.0 "Lenny" released 2009-07-28: gnat-4.4 reaches unstable 2009-09-30: libgnat-4.4 ABI freeze; start of transition of all Ada packages 2010-02-15: end of support for Debian 4.0 "Etch" (i.e. Lenny+12 months) 2010-02-28: end of transition and, probably, freeze of all packages in Debian 2010-03-*: removal of gnat-4.3 sometime between 2010-08 and 2011-02: release of Squeeze, i.e. between 18 and 24 months after Lenny. Today marks the first milestone on this roadmap. gnat-4.4 includes all of the patches from gnat-4.3 (adjusted as needed) but also some patches from GCC 4.5 needed to make the Distributed Systems Annex work again (with PolyORB). I need your help testing the compiler and its run-time libraries against your programs and fixing any bugs you find. During this time, I am willing to patch the compiler and its run-time library as needed for stability or even to backport new features from the trunk (GCC 4.5). After the ABI freeze, no changes will be accepted to the run- time library anymore (i.e. the .ali files will be frozen) so as to guarantee binary compatibility of all Ada packages. If you have some software that you would like to package for Debian, I encourage you to use gnat-4.4, instead of gnat-4.3, starting now. gnat-4.4 will be the only Ada compiler in Debian Squeeze. Happy hacking! -- Ludovic Brenta.