Re: GNATColl

[tonyg <tonythegair@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday, 5 March 2013 20:06:44 UTC, tonyg  wrote:
> On Tuesday, 5 March 2013 19:27:49 UTC, Ludovic Brenta  wrote:
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> > > I noticed this pre compiled library was not on debian wheezy. Having
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> > I'm not quite sure what you want to say or ask here but I've also been
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> > considering packaging gnatcoll for Debian.  Unfortunately I've never
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> > http://bugs.debian.org/640532
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> > If anyone feels like helping, they'd be most welcome.
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> > BTW, gnat-4.8 is in the NEW queue awaiting human intervention for
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> > help fix a release-critical bug to make the release happen faster...).
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> > [1] http://ftp-master.debian.org/new/gnat-4.8_4.8-20130102-1.html
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> > Ludovic Brenta.
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> I havn't packaged a compiled unit for debian before, let me take a look and get back to you :) (I have made so so much use of the debian packages though its only right to try)

I've made some progress on the dependency side regarding python.
It needs a link to exist in /usr/bin/ called python-config and I think pretty much any python will do. Its a strange one though isn't it, don't packages have to have only possible dependency rather than a choice?