Hello. This is a short proposal regarding establishing of a Debian Cross Interest Group -- a team of maintainers tracking all of the packages (or parts of packages) relevant for cross-compilation procedures on Debian systems (and for Debian systems).
List of packages to maintain ------------------------------------ 1. binutils Here, we have to maintain a patch by yoush that adds an option to build cross binutils, suitable for use together with cross gcc. It is not clear whether binutils maintainers would like to include it in the package -- at least, we have to maintain the patch against the most recent version (in the buglog of appropriate whishlist item). 2. gcc Here, we have to maintain patches against gcc source package, which add the ability to produce cross-compilers out of Debian gcc. Currently, patches exist against all major versions of gcc in Debian. Our task is to keep track of gcc package development and update these patches accordingly, collaborating with debian-gcc team. 3. dpkg-cross Here, we have to maintain and develop dpkg-cross itself and its package. Optional: dpkg We might step into trouble involved in pushing our ideas regarding additional architectures to dpkg :) Plus, of course, all relevant READMEs and documentation. How are we going to do that? ------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or should we ask for a new list, specifically for that?) is going to be in Maintainer: field of dpkg-cross, and in various documentation bits (plus, of course, particular members in Uploaders, where relevant). Who's involved? -------------------- Nikita V. Youshchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alexander Shishckin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Raphael Bossek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wartan Hachaturow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Preliminary TODO ------- 1. Check relevance of the current patches against binutils and gcc, update if needed, announcing changes to the structure to debian-gcc. 2. Merge patches to dpkg-cross (apt-build support, additional arches), test, upload. 3. Revise documentation for dpkg-cross and gcc's cross part. 4. Check and test additional patches to the abovementioned packages coming from Slind, propose for inclusion, if found interesting. 5. Create wiki page for discussions and stuff. So, this is it, shortly. Discussion, ideas and volunteers welcome. -- Regards, Wartan.
