From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.bbs.nz!aioe.org!.POSTED.3d73Ybk3C5U4I2t8lv+lAQ.user.gioia.aioe.org!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What is best linux distribution for Ada programmers? Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 22:00:21 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <99d6b543-10fe-43a9-b3eb-2a4612e8d497@googlegroups.com> <4a0dca53-5731-4a0e-be52-0dbdae3394e2@googlegroups.com> <87mue0edkq.fsf@samuel> NNTP-Posting-Host: 3d73Ybk3C5U4I2t8lv+lAQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Content-Language: en-US Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:57305 Date: 2019-10-16T22:00:21+02:00 List-Id: On 2019-10-16 20:43, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > "Dmitry A. Kazakov" 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! -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de