Re: RFS: xburst-tools

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Paul Wise wrote:

> I assume this woud be a source package that build-depends
> on the gcc MIPS cross compiler package generated by the new buildcross
> package in unstable.

Oh!  Thanks for the pointer.

> Something that may be possible down the track, once the Debian archive
> can support source package synchronisation (for license compliance),
> is to create gcc-X.Y-mips source packages that build-depend on
> gcc-X.Y-source and build and ship a cross-compilers from them.

Ah, so dak is the place to fix this[1]?  Very good, will take a look...

> Sounds good to me.

Thanks for all the advice.

Regards,
Jonathan

[1] I remember
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/11/msg00136.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/11/msg00001.html
but was not aware of anything coming of it.