Pursuant to [1] here is a summary of the state of Ada packages in Debian. The short summary is: All is well, we are ready for the freeze except for one package.
The long summary follows. We first published the revised Debian Policy for Ada[2] back in October. There is now a link to this document from http://www.debian.org/devel. We then planned our work targetting a freeze in March 2010. We are in very, very good shape now. We have completed the transition of all packages (except one) from gnat-4.3 to gnat-4.4 and recently removed gnat-4.3 from unstable (#573022). apq-postgresql has not completed the transition yet; it is in unstable and is blocked from migrating by #570887 (FTBFS on some architectures). This blocks apq from migrating to testing and also blocks the removal of gnat-4.3 from testing. Several people have joined in the effort to maintain more Ada packages in Debian; one of them is now an official Debian Maintainer[3] and a couple others are in the pipeline. To coordinate the effort, a new mailing list has been created: [email protected]. The new maintainers adopted some of my existing packages and added several new ones. All the packages are now in testing with no RC bugs. We have been in quasi-freeze for a couple of months now (no aliversion changes) and have been busy fixing bugs without disrupting anything. A handful of packages are in unstable and will transition to testing this week, fixing a few more (non-RC) bugs, but the versions of these packages in testing have all already completed the transition to gnat-4.4. We have been forced to drop support for alpha from all packages because of a compiler bug[4]. We have also dropped support for mips from a subset of our packages because of #566234. Finally, we have dropped support for mipsel from one large package, gnat-gps, due to the unavailability of buildd machines. OTOH, we have introduced support for armel in some packages, although here again the main problem is availability of buildd machines; not all packages that support armel are built there. This has not prevented their migration to testing, so I consider this a minor problem. Given our good shape I do hope that the freeze takes place at the end of March 2010 and the final release very soon thereafter. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/03/msg00005.html [2] http://people.debian.org/~lbrenta/debian-ada-policy.html [3] http://lists.debian.org/debian-ada/2010/03/msg00000.html [4] http://gcc.gnu.org/PR42073 -- Ludovic Brenta. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/73da9cb5c9e31328099219069d7cb...@localhost
