After a few discussions at DebCamp, I'd like to propose that we arrange to make a "release" of sorts alongside Debian Lenny 5.0 and call it: Emdebian 1.0 (based on Debian Lenny 5.0) Due to the (continuing) changes needed between Emdebian and Debian, probably best not to call it Emdebian Lenny 5.0 and it's not as if the packages would justify a v5.0 at this stage. Indeed, it might be worth calling it Emdebian 0.9 or 0.5. What would be in the release? Single architecture: ARM 243 source packages, 783 binaries and 1,629 TDebs. Support (in Debian Lenny 5.0) for preparing root filesystems for a variety of machines and variants from the available package set. There won't be any .tgz files to download from www.emdebian.org Subsequent work is : To bring TDebs to Debian in general. To implement D-I support for Emdebian root filesystems (needs a fix for the chpasswd bug) #484700 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=484700 To support armel and i386. I've got only 4 more packages to fix for the autobuilder (and two of those can simply be dropped from Emdebian). The majority of current patches can be dropped if I manage to persuade Joey Hess to implement a fix for #448615 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448615 More can be dropped if the CDBS bug is also fixed: #450483 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=450483 (afaict, nobody at DebConf for CDBS issues.) Once Debian Lenny is released, I'll start delayed NMU's for the remaining cross-building bugs: http://www.emdebian.org/bugs.php -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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