Re: Debian GNAT 4.7, status?

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Sun, 30 Dec 2012 10:10:15 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov  
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a écrit:

> Any soon?
>
> P.S. I am asking because yesterday I discovered a severe bug in Debian's
> GNAT 4.6 (compiler freeze). Fedora is already 4.7 and there is no bug.
>

I had the same question, and Ludovic suggested to either do with 4.6,  
either switch to Debian unstable, or wait for at least 2013-03.

See:  
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/comp.lang.ada/6CbIsQ21GRw

Le Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:26:21 +0200, Ludovic Brenta  
<ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> a écrit:
> I recommend you not wait for gnat-4.7 or gnat-4.8, sorry.  Also if you
> want to minimize the waiting, switch to Debian unstable because gnat-4.7
> will appear there first.
>
> I've started work on gnat-4.7 but it will be some time before it is in a
> state where I can upload to unstable.  How much time, I cannot tell as I
> do all of this in my spare time.  Even then it is possible that I decide
> that gnat-4.8 will be the next default compiler in Debian 8 "Jessie".
> I'll make that decision around March 2013, after GCC 4.8 is released.


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