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. Detailed package-specific notes are on the page ArmEabiProblems.

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)

g77

{X} ~290 packages waiting.. (GfortranTransition needs help)

libffi4

(./) (RikuVoipio)

Objective-C

{X} Part of gcc, disabled because doesn't work. ~80 packages waiting

Java

(./) Works (RikuVoipio)

Other languages

State

fpc

Free Pascal compiler. Needs itself to compile itself, available in arm port. Makes 18 binary packages; 8 other binary packages waiting.

ghc6

(./) Glasgow Haskell Compiler ~70 packages being built

gnat

{X} Gnu Ada compiler. Requires itself to compile itself. Not provided on ARM old-EABI either. 17 packages waiting.

mono

<!> [https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=MONO80024 MONO80024 fixed]. Still some issues compiling gtk-sharp2.. ~40 packages waiting

ocaml

{i} (native compiler missing)

and a dozen more languages

{X}

Important packages

State

fftw

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

fftw3

(./)

gettext

(./)

kernel-package

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

nspr

(./)

||iceweasel|| <!> fixed in firefox 3.0 betas(?) |

Infrastructure

State

buildd's

(./) 3 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{i} (out of date)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

Recording Arm EABI bugs to Debian bts

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