[parisc-linux] removal of gnat

Matthew Wilcox willy@debian.org
Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:26:31 +0000


On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 05:21:58PM +0200, Harri Haataja wrote:
> If there's ada stuff and gnat in particular there, I hope removing that
> won't take out the last ada system available. I believe it's quite hard
> to get back.

No danger of that -- it's built as part of the debian gcc-3.2 build,
so there are substantially more recent compilers available.  gnat is
written in Ada, so it is known to work at least well enough to compile
itself.

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