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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: What is best linux distribution for Ada programmers?
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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> On 2019-10-16 20:43, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>
>>> AFAIK, Ubuntu has GCC 9, Debian is still 8.
>>
>> Ubuntu is always, by definition and by construction, behind Debian.  The
>> compiler is only the foundation of the entire ecosystem of packages.
>> And you should not look at the gcc package but at the gnat package.
>
> That is not necessarily a contradiction. Debian buster has only
> libgnat-8. Yes, libgnat-9 is available for Debian, but only in
> testing. Ubuntu disco has libgnat-9 already. It is likely the Debian
> testing's libgnat-9. You can have both testing ahead and stable
> behind!

At the risk of repeating myself, gnat is only the foundation of the
ecosystem of packages and is in fact pretty irrelevant.  You should look
at the gnat-gps package, which depends on almost everything else, to get
an accurate idea of what each distro carries.

And yes, I am aware of the differences between stable and testing, thank
you very much.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.