% Emdebian BoF - quick review and discussion
% Wookey & Héctor Orón
% DebConf9, July 2009

# Progress this year

 * grip and crush(for arm) released along with lenny
 * grip being used commercially
 * toolchains now building gcc-4.4
 
# Debian changes

 * dpkg-vendor support has been added
 * Default shell changed to dash

# Crush Code Audit

Everyone get involved.

Install emdebian tools, pick a package, emsource it and see if it works. 
Look if patches can be incorporated into main package 
and/or re-implemented using deb_vendor.

# dpkg-cross
 * cmake support in dpkg-cross - can we move it?
 * autoconf support in dpkg-cross
 * transition to multiarch - dpkg going away, but need it for a while.

# cross-tools
 * Uninstalability is a problem
 * new plan for autobuilt toolchains
![](images/cross.pdf

# multiarch changes things
 * cross-building - OK for debian, not for variants - needs 
   sysroot/chroot
 * dependencies stuff all changes - now install foregn arch stuff
   directly, not convert it to build arch.


# cross-building
 * hapening in Debian/ubuntu for toolchains
 * we need eqivalent of pbuilder-satisfy-depends
 * apt-cross does not work well enough - how do we fix?

please dive in - plenty to do :-)

;# Multi-Arch:
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;![](images/multiarch.jpg)