On 4/17/06, Wartan Hachaturow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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). I remember Wookey trying to push the patch against the newest binutils in debian. At the moment I have that patch updated to support uclibc- architectures. Wookey, did you succeed in convincing James to take that patch?
> 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. Yeah, here I also do have a couple of patches. > 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. Volunteers are very welcome. > How are we going to do that? > ------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or should we ask for a new list, specifically for that?) No more lists, I implore. This list is rather silent anyway and I don't see why we should move cross-compilation topic out of here. > 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. Everything's fine with them, if we're talking about latest versions of gcc and binutils. In a couple of days I'll post them here (if anyone's interested to review those), cleaned up and shiny. > 2. Merge patches to dpkg-cross (apt-build support, additional arches), > test, upload. > 3. Revise documentation for dpkg-cross and gcc's cross part. Hmm. Is there any? > 4. Check and test additional patches to the abovementioned packages > coming from Slind, propose for inclusion, if found interesting. I would insist on slind patches from the beginning, of course. After all, I'm not very interested in maintaining several versions of a same patch. Slind changes are either useful (to those who use 'em) or simply don't hurt. > 5. Create wiki page for discussions and stuff. I'd ask Hector if he has time. > So, this is it, shortly. > Discussion, ideas and volunteers welcome. Indeed. -- I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.
