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On Sunday, 20 December 2015 11:24:34 UTC, Brian Drummond  wrote:

> Debian based distros were stuck with gnat-4.6 despite gcc moving on to 
> 4.7 and 4.8 up until gcc and gnat 4.9 came out together with Jessie. 
> 
> So if you're using a downstream distro that hasn't caught up with gnat/
> gcc-4.9 it's probably time to upgrade at least the compilers. Possibly 
> from Debian itself if your distro can't supply them. I can't help with 
> the details, sorry.

I moved from Debian to Gentoo for this exact reason (and the fact that they weren't keeping up with graphics drivers either) only to find the Ada situation on Gentoo is dire, but I intend to work on that.

Luke.