Hi, this is the co-authored report from the === Emdebian/FAI Work Session in Extremadura 2008 === A joyous meeting for a few days discussing and working on [http://emdebian.org|Emdebian] in Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. The meeting and work session took place in the gnuLinEx center and was attended by 18 Debian contributors. ==== Lenny bug squashing results ==== RC bug squashing with 7 or 8 closed RC bugs affecting Lenny and 3 sid only ones. (Lesson learned: don't count the number of bugs, but list the bug numbers.) ==== Emdebian results ==== * Cross-toolchain work - trying to fix gcc cross-multilib builds in mips/ppc. Problem lies with differnces between gcc and debian lib64 paths. Could be fixed with links in glibc. Disabled for now so that these arches cross-toolchains can build. * dpkg-cross gained cmake cross-build support * Documentation overhaul * emdebian Server overhauled and updated * Exploring the need for an Emdebian system based on coreutils instead of busybox. * Significant reductions in the size of glibc and tzdata for Emdebian (courtesy of Aurelien), expected to save 5Mb in all Emdebian root filesystems. * Improving uClibc support in Emdebian * Emdebian '5 year plan' including a full code audit in 2009 (preceded by NMUs to close existing cross-building bugs) * Goals and flavours for Emdebian Squeeze * Emdebian crush - maximally squeezed with dependency changes, package name changes and a lot of work to ensure that Debian packages can still be mixed in. * Emdebian grip - smaller amounts of squeeze, as few functional changes as possible and highest level of compatibility with Debian. * Clearer support for native builds of Emdebian packages. * Ideas and improvements to best handle the new buildd.emdebian.org pseudo-package along the lines of ftp.debian.org using usercategories and usertags. * Work on DEB_VENDOR and how dpkg classes will, together with a few other bug fixes, provide the basis to migrate all Emdebian patches into Debian before Squeeze. * debhelper patch for tags in packages.* files * MTD support in Debian-installer discussed. Proposal for work/analysis drafted. * Balloon3 networking and touchscreen improvements for Emdebian * all bugs filed against busybox 1.11.2 have been verified and fixed upstream. ==== FAI work ==== We made FAI ready for Lenny. In that course, we fixed 1 serious, 3 important and 16 other bugs. We also had long discussions about changelogs and quite some fun! ==== Other relevant stuff ==== While it was hot and sunny, it wasn't as hot as it will be in July 2009 ;) (air-conditioning is going to be *so* needed for DebConf!) As usual when people meet keysigning party took place. (yay \o/) 30GB of DebConf7 videos (as ntsc and pal mpeg1 file formats) where uploaded, so that DVDs can be created now. Muchas gracias a la Junta de Extremadura for giving us this opportunity!! It is very much appreciated! -- regards, Holger
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