Juan Luis Freniche Ibañez <fdes...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello Ludovic,
I do not normally reply to private emails. I am cc-ing debian-ada@lists.debian.org so that other people can benefit. > I am using ubuntu impish 21.10 and Ada with Gtkada. We cannot comment on Ubuntu. The rest of this email is only about Debian stable. > Initially I installed the Ada suite gnat-10 but gps is missing. So I > went to GNAT Community and GtkAda Community,for which I have to live > with one of the two errors: > > * gtkada programs cannot be launched from thunar OR > * gps community cannot debug gtkada programs, > > depending upon if the gtkada is defined or not and how it is defined. I hope and suppose you have reported these bugs to AdaCore? Maybe they can support you. > Therefore I would like to come back to gnat-10 suite. I then found gps > but for ubuntu 19-2, which requires older packages. > > Questions: > > 1. Once installed gnat-10 suite, can I install gps without these older > packages? No. You can however install Debian 10 "Buster" in a chroot or as your main operating system; this includes a complete Ada suite based on gnat-8, gnat-gps and Python 2. > 2. Have you plans to make a gps version for gnat-10? No. 15 years after being declared dead, Python 2 was removed from Debian 11 "Bullseye", the current stable version, and so we had to remove gnat-gps, which still depends on it. > 3. Finally, when the new ubuntu (jamish) be in place, have you plans to > move the complete suite? We have no plans for Ubuntu. We do have plans for the next Debian 12 "Bookworm". This includes gnat-11 as the Ada compiler; all Ada packages are being migrated now. If and when AdaCore complete the migration of GnatStudio to Python 3, we will try to re-include it in Debian. There is still a chance that this happens in time for Debian 12 i.e. before January 2023, see https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html. > Thanks a lot in advance -- Ludovic Brenta.
