Thanks for your work on GNAT. It will be good to have it being maintained on Debian again.
> I don't see a significant number of small Ada programs in Debian. True. However there are a significant number of people who do development of small programs using Debian and who sometimes distribute them (not in Debian since they are specialised). I am in this category and would very much like to avoid a factor of 5 increase (per binary) in the size of my executables. If DSO support is dropped then I will be forced to package up my own shared library and distribute this. This greatly decreases the usefulness of Debian as a development platform for me. I would hope that there will never be an upgrade of GNAT during the release time of a stable Debian, so if GNAT compiled applications were dynamically linked against libgnat then that would mean at some point, applications using it would have to be recompiled in unstable/testing. Since ACT releases so infrequently this would just be once per version of Debian. I would not consider this to be too much work. If the maintainers of packages don't want to do this then it should be up to them to uses static linking. The ACT version of 3.15p seems to provide DSO support so I don't think that static linking should be forced on users by Debian. Thank you, Steven Murdoch.
