It is our policy[1] to support the same version of gnat on all architectures. The package gnat exists for this very purpose. Allowing gnat to depend on different versions of gnat-x.y on different architectures would defeat this purpose. If some architecture cannot support the chosen version of gnat-x.y, then we prefer to drop support for that achitecture altogether.
The transition from gnat-4.6 to gnat-4.9 has been planned and announced in due course [3,4] (and furthermore accepted and approved by the Ada maintainers), therefore should have come as no surprise to anyone interested in Ada or gnat. [1] http://people.debian.org/~lbrenta/debian-ada-policy.html#The-Debian-Ada-compiler [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-ada/2014/02/msg00000.html [3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-ada/2014/04/msg00025.html Therefore I am tempted to close this bug as WONTFIX. If you have objections, please explain the benefits of making it easier to break policy. (Note that, pursuant to our policy, I intend to request removal of gnat-4.8 in the near future.) -- Ludovic Brenta. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org