Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ludovic Brenta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > First, please note that Debian is the only distro that does not ship > > shared libraries with the FSF variant of GNAT; all other distros agree > > that shared libraries are a good thing. > > In fact, the GNU Ada Environment specification I wrote strongly > recommends them, even with the sonames you prefer. 8-)
It's funny you should mention it just now, because I just became aware of it not 10 minutes ago while browsing debian-devel archives :) (however, it does not specifically mention sonames, just file names of shared libraries). Because I would strongly support any standardisation effort, I changed the paths to the files for asis, which I'm packaging just now. I don't like the long directory names too much (I would prefer just /usr/include/<module> and /usr/lib/<module>), but I'll follow these recommendations for compatibility with the Ada for Linux team. I used to use their RPMs long ago. I note that your recommendation includes the commands "adainstall" and "adaconfig". I seem to remember them from the gnat RPM by Jürgen Pfeifer. Are you planning to package them for Debian? > > Most of the recent distributions seem to have dropped ACT releases > > altogether, in favour of FSF ones. This is unfortunate, because the > > ACT releases are more mature and stable. I would like Debian to > > include GNAT 3.15p. > > Yes, that's a good idea. > > > The soname for FSF versions is also ill-chosen, and is very likely to > > change when ACT finally declares the integration between the Ada > > front-end and the GCC 3.x back-end to be complete. GCC 3.2 does not > > have a problem, but GCC 3.3 uses the same soname as ACT's binary > > distribution. This is bad, given the ABI incompatibility. > > I merely suspect that there is an ABI incompatibility. I'm not sure > it's actually there. (No one tests such things.) > > > In order to ensure that the soname used by ACT and FSF variants remain > > different, I think the best is to keep the current scheme for the > > soname (libgnat-3.15p.so.1), and to add a prominent warning to this > > effect in the description of the package. This has the additional > > advantage of sticking to the Debian policy. > > I agree. Thanks for your support. You can check out gnat (= 3.15p-2) which follows this. -- Ludovic Brenta.
