In July 2003, I adopted the package gnat and several other Ada packages. In November 2003, Matthias Klose sponsored my first few packages into Debian unstable. After I adopted all the orphaned packages I could, I created several new packages from sratch. Now, all my packages have been released as part of sarge.
I am talking about 18 source packages, 43 binary packages and roughly 2.8 million lines of code according to David A. Wheeler's SLOCCount. All of these packages are related to Ada. For the most part, 3 architectures are supported: i386, powerpc and sparc. As of last week, I even have a Sun Ultra 2 at home running Debian :) I am the principal maintainer of all versions of GNAT: gnat, gnat-3.3, gnat-3.4 and gnat-4.0. The latter three are part of the corresponding GCC source packages, and I cooperate with the Debian GCC maintainers on these. For this reason, Matthias has been kind enough to keep me in the loop of the discussions on the future default compiler for etch. Thank you, Matthias. In addition to the packages, I have also written the Debian Policy for Ada[1]. This Policy ensures that all Ada packages use the same ABI, and work well together; this is particularly important for libraries. [1] http://www.ada-france.org/debian/debian-ada-policy.html I host a Debian repository on Ada-France[2]; I use it as a staging area for Matthias to get my packages and upload them to sid. [2] deb http://www.ada-france.org/debian ada main Matthias has been a very good sponsor for me for the past 19 months. However, his expanded duties now leave him little time to upload my packages. He asked me to apply for Debian Developer, and explain my future plans. So, my plans are: 1. To continue maintaining my packages. Bugs, new releases, etc. This includes in particular the GNAT which is part of GCC. 2. To upload the Debian Policy for Ada into unstable; after all, the Python Policy is already in sarge. 3. Not to make any new packages. I don't want to spread too thin, and I want to do a good job of maintaining my packages. 4. To update the Debian Policy for Ada when appropriate. As part of this, I would like etch to move from GNAT 3.15p to a more recent version, but this requires ASIS support which is not yet available. This may make it possible to support more architectures. 5. To sponsor and mentor people who would like to help maintain Ada-related packages. In time, such people might prove worthy enough that I might advocate them :) My GPG key has been signed by a Debian Developer: $ gpg --list-sigs brenta pub 1024D/9DFFAAD4 2003-07-10 uid Ludovic Brenta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig 3 9DFFAAD4 2003-07-10 Ludovic Brenta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sig 3 6783ED5E 2003-08-25 Frederic Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 1024g/751B6557 2003-07-10 sig 9DFFAAD4 2003-07-10 Ludovic Brenta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am now looking for an advocate; if you are interested, please visit: http://nm.debian.org/nmadvocate.php?email=ludovic.brenta%40insalien.org PS. I don't follow debian-devel; please CC me directly if you reply. -- Ludovic Brenta. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
