Emdebian at DebCamp and DebConf8, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
Aug '08
September 8th, 2008
DebCamp started on 2nd August 2008, prior to
DebConf8 which took place
between August 10th to August 16th, 2008. Neil Williams attended
both on behalf of Emdebian.
DebCamp is a chance to setup and
continue development prior to the main DebConf conference, including:
- Reduced the number of packages that fail to cross-build in a
clean cross-building chroot.
- Resolved the chpasswd problem in busybox thanks to a fix upstream by
Bernhard Fischer - removing the last hurdle to clean root filesystem
installation in Emdebian.
- Continuing discussions about TDebs -
- One tdeb per source package - dpkg class support needed
- Using the class support, .tdebs would be easily splittable into
smaller, per language tdebs, similar to the way that Emdebian will use
TDebs
- Translators would be able to use +t[0-9]+ syntax to indicate
translation updates (similar to bin-nmu style versioning)
- Translation-Version: would be used in Packages files to indicate
the most up-to-date tdeb instead of having full Package: entries
- This work is aimed at lenny+2 due to the changes needed in the deb
toolchain. There needs to be discussion with the dpkg, apt,
debian-installer and debhelper people. ftpmaster is happy with the one
tdeb per source package and +t[0-9]+ syntax. The plan is to meet in
Extremedura (post-lenny) to continue the discussion and start the work.
Neil Williams also presented an
Emdebian update talk at DebConf, including details of the upcoming
Emdebian 1.0 (based on Debian 5.0 "Lenny") release, a general update
on the changes in Emdebian and on upcoming changes, including:
- Size optimisations in glibc and tzdata.
- A full code audit after the Emdebian 1.0 release.
- armel support
- Python support as a pre-cursor to:
- Emdebian support for the OpenMoko FreeRunner.
- Debian-Installer integration
Slides are
available as PDF.
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