Thanks a lot for your work on this! and to everyone else who worked on or shaped the proposal.
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Johannes Schauer wrote: > - should Debian be bootstrappable in a fully automated fashion? We > created the algorithms that can allow this to happen, we just need > more meta data and a way to encode it That sounds useful, so yes. arm64 is on the way, it would be a nice test case but I guess wookey/Sledge are onto that. The SH-5 CPU architecture apparently exists but has no port. There are also the architectures with open-source CPU designs OpenRISC and LatticeMico32 (LM32, used in the Milkymist SoC). So it is safe to say that there could be new Debian ports in the future and that your work would be very helpful in reducing the investment needed for new ports. > - do the proposals for the needed fields sound convincing? Can they be > improved? Do they have fundamental flaws? As an interested bystander, it sounds good. Agreed about using Profile rather than Build-with-profile/Built-with-profile. I imagine that most packages will be cross-buildable. Packages outside the set of bootstrap packages probably don't need to declare if they are cross-buildable or not? Cross-building is a slightly larger topic since there are things like arch:all firmware for ARM processors in the same source package as the tools that upload that firmware. There are also various packages in the archive (or potential ones) that are cross-built for non-Debian architectures (like win32, SH-2 or bionic libc). If you think this might be interesting to announce more widely (as I do), please add a paragraph to the next DeveloperNews, which will be released on debian-devel-announce when we get 5 entries. http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews I'm also sending a mail to LWN and the distributions mailing list (at freedesktop), it might be interesting to developers of other distributions, especially Gentoo :) -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6furvgsxqfxsqlcokhr7fryf2rjz8a+kbngp4qwz0w...@mail.gmail.com