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"Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>> Ubuntu does their own work keeping Ada up to date?

Not that I know.  All they do is import and recompile packages from
Debian.

> 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.

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Ludovic Brenta.