Re: plan for gnat-4.6?

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Stephen Leake writes:
> What is the plan for gnat-4.6?
>
> I've been waiting for gnat-4.6 to show up in unstable before doing any
> testing of my packages. Should I be compiling gnat from source
> instead?  What would be most helpful?

Now that gcc-4.6 4.6.1-1 is in unstable, the plan is to upload some time
this coming weekend.  If you want, you can build gnat-4.6 from the head
of org.debian.gnat-4.6 and report any problems you might have.  Xavier
has already done that and done most of the work on XML/Ada, AWS, Polyorb
et al, so this time around it seems that the transition of all Ada
packages to gnat-4.6 will happen in record time :)

Note: libgcc1 still has not migrated from unstable to testing, this
breaks both gnat-4.4 and gnat-4.6.

Also, since Debian is planning to freeze Wheezy in June 2012, it might
even be possible for us to migrate to gnat-4.7 before then.  We'll make
a decision regarding this late this year.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.