Debian ARM EABI (armel) port TODO list

State of features for armel

This list omits many features that "just worked" from the beginning, and thus have avoided attention from porters. Thus it looks worse than it is.

Legend

(./)

Great

<!>

Fix in [http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian/dists/unreleased/main/binary-armel/ unreleased] or BTS

{X}

Unfixed

{i}

Needs confirmation tests

The GCC Toolchain

State

Binutils

(./) Works (RikuVoipio)

Standard C

(./) Works (RikuVoipio)

Standard C++

(./) Works (RikuVoipio)

glibc

(./) Works (RikuVoipio / aurel32)

gfortran

{i} ~290 packages waiting..

libffi4

(./) (RikuVoipio)

Objective-C

{X} Part of gcc, but explicitly disabled for armel. ~80 packages waiting

Java

(./) Works (RikuVoipio)

Other languages

State

gcl

{i} GNU Common Lisp. Build succeeded 1-Dec-2007 (tho 297 out of 10697 total tests failed). 4 packages waiting.

ghc6

{i} Glasgow Haskell Compiler [http://simplemachines.it/martin/debian unofficial packages available] ~70 packages waiting

gnat

{X} Gnu Ada compiler. Requires itself to compile itself. Not provided on ARM old-EABI either. 1 other package waiting.

mono

<!> [https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=MONO80024 MONO80024] ~40 packages waiting

perl

(./) Works (RikuVoipio)

php5

(./) Works (RikuVoipio)

python

(./) (RikuVoipio)

ocaml

{i} (native compiler missing)

ruby

(./)

and a dozen more languages

{X}

Important packages

State

apt

(./) Works (RikuVoipio)

attr

(./) Works (RikuVoipio)

db4.5

(./) Works (RikuVoipio)

db4.x legacy

(./) Works (RikuVoipio)

dpkg

(./) Works (RikuVoipio)

fftw

{X} Wants g77 to build its fortran stubs. ~16 packages waiting, none of which use the fortran stubs.

fftw3

(./)

gettext

<!> needs classpath

kernel-package

<!> [http://bugs.debian.org/425971 Bug #425971]

linux-2.6

(./) Works (RikuVoipio)

linux-libc-dev

(./) Works (RikuVoipio)

nspr

<!> [http://bugs.debian.org/436213 Bug #436213]

iceweasel

fixed in firefox trunk - to backport or to wait?

Other packages

State

varkon

{X} CAD system. Needs gcc-3.3 to build because of -fwritable-strings in Makefiles. The latest upstream version removes this need [http://bugs.debian.org/453009 Bug #453009]; it is currently orphaned but should be adopted in mid December 2007

Infrastructure

State

buildd's

(./) 2 buildd's running (RikuVoipio)

build logs

(./) http://experimental.ftbfs.de/ (RikuVoipio)

unofficial archive

(./) 90.79% up-to-date

packages properly signed by DD

(./)

developer accessible machine

{i} Now accessible, needs some config + DSA attention, Wookey working on it - ask if access needed

official archive inclusion

Request [http://bugs.debian.org/439832 filed]. Need to make sure we meet the [http://ftp-master.debian.org/archive-criteria.html Archive criteria].

debian-installer

State

d-i base port

(./)

d-i sample images

{i} (out of date)

d-i nightly images

{X}

d-i documentation

{X}

arch-upgrade tool

{X}

Triaging:

NMU:

Other:

Get installed graph to 95%+ zone http://unstable.buildd.net/buildd/Installed_stats.png

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