Hi all. I've got myself a fully functional GNU-0.2 system (as per the gnu-0.2 binary release), and I'd really like to help out in porting debian stuff over to the hurd. My GNU/Linux system is not debian, and I have no experience at all with development of .deb packages, but i'm in the process of reading all the docs on the debian documentation project.
I have a fully functional native gcc-2.7 on my hurd partition with which to work. Will the deb tools compile on hurd at this stage? If not, what's broken? I'm willing to help dig out bugs in the deb tool sources, or in the source of the packages depended on by them. Another quick qn: Is it safe to replace the binaries from the gnu-0.2 package with those of the ghhk? I was first running ghhk, but later decided to replace it with the official gnu-0.2 distribution so that i could use the time i would have spend cross-compiling everything to get a useful system more effectively working on things that need to get done for the future of the debian hurd project. Also: I noticed a comment on Marcus' page that the latest GNUMach snapshots don't compile... is this still true? What is the latest post-1.1.3 version of gnumach that's usable? In any case, this is mainly just a note to let people know i'm out here and ready to help this thing move. Take care, ed.
