I have already sent a vacation notification to -private, but I'm sending another one to -devel, for those considering NMUs of my packages.
I'll be on vacation next week in Lyon (France) with no net access, and coming back the week thereafter. I will have little time to spend on Debian because I'm moving, but things should go back to normal around 2006-08-16 or so. I am in the middle of a large transition from gnat 3.15p (based on GCC 2.8.1) to GCC 4.1 as the system Ada compiler for Etch. Most of my packages FTBFS, and have corresponding RC bugs, because I properly set their build-dependencies to *not* build with GCC 4.1. The reason is that GCC 4.1 brings a new ABI, so all libraries must change their sonames. Another change required in all packages is that they must support amd64, ia64 and hppa in addition to i386, kfreebsd-i386, powerpc and sparc. A third change, for several packages, is that upstream has switched from the GNAT-Modified GPL (which allows distributing non-free programs linked with the free libraries) to the pure GPL (which disallows this). See the copyright file in libxmlada2-dev for details, other packages will need similar copyright statements. The transition is currently blocked by Packages-arch-specific not being taken into account by wanna-build, due to a CVS pserver problem. I was hoping to upload all of my packages before my vacation, but the delay makes that impossible (not that I want to blame anyone; I am just explaining the situation). If you plan to do an NMU of any of my packages, please wait until I return, so you can coordinate with me. I *do* welcome NMUs, patches and suggestions. Also, please see http://www.ada-france.org/debian/debian-ada-policy.html before considering an NMU. -- Ludovic Brenta. (signing off for a week :) ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
