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"In a discussion with the Debian Hurd porters it was decided that the Hurd port stays on FTPMaster until Wheezy is released. Should they have managed to get the port into a state that it is released together with all the others (probably as a technology preview), it is kept in the archive. Should they not manage this the port will be removed from the main archive and move fully to debian-ports.org."¹

What is Debian GNU/Hurd ?

Debian GNU/Hurd is an operating system from Debian, but which uses GNU Hurd, which is a set of servers, running on top of the GNU Mach microkernel instead of the kernel named Linux (thus the name Debian GNU/Hurd). Some day, most applications will exist both in Debian GNU/Hurd and in Debian GNU/Linux.

Basic info

• Official port site

• GNU's GNU Hurd

• Installation and testing:

  • http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install

    • Debian "Sid" debian-installer images available http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/.

    • This is the prefered method of install.

  • Cross Hurd

  • Pre-build image files (*.img.*) at http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/

• ?Debian_GNU/Hurd_FAQ

• TheHurd page. (Merge?)

• User/developer discussion mailing list

• Last bits from the project

• IRC channel: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/irc.html

  • #hurd on irc.freenode.net

  • #debian-hurd on irc.debian.org

Goals for releasing in wheezy

• buildd
  • security
  • DSA
• proper dhcp support in installed system
  • use ifup/ifdown instead of translators entry?

• packages in debian-ports (those marked with need to be integrated in the main archive):

  • (hurd-any) cardmgr-gnumach
    • wifi, can live without
    • postpone
  • (hurd-any) console-driver-xkb
    • we should probably just integrate it in the hurd package
    • See the concerns on the mailing list archive (bug-hurd, "XKB's keymaps for the Hurd console")
    • can postpone
  • (hurd-any) cvsfs

    • ITP: 669647

  • (hurd-any) gopherfs

    • ITP: 669648

  • grub2, NMUed

    • 670069, 634799, 670186, 670189, parted partition patch being discussed with upstream

  • icon, to remove

    • 654381 still pending

    • for lyx.
    • -k option issue fixed by exec_file_name patch in libc.

  • ifupdown, to remove

    • DONE

  • isc-dhcp

    • 616290

    • Being Discussed directly with upstream, upstream patch available
    • Maintainer wants patch really applied upstream before adding it to debian.
    • patch applied upstream for newer version

  • libpciaccess

    • 675289

  • libusb, to remove

  • lockdev, NMUed

    • 668951

  • (hurd-any) netio

    • ITP: 669652

  • parted, NMUed

    • 669936

  • psmisc, to remove

    • 673485

  • (hurd-any) random-egd
    • make it an alternative to Marcus' C implementation
    • can live without
    • can postpone

  • screen, to remove

    • trivial fix on 522689 , fixed in experimental

  • (hurd-any) smbfs

    • ITP: 669653

  • (hurd-any) tarfs

    • ITP: 669654

  • (hurd-any) wireless-tools-gnumach
    • just for wifi, can live without
    • postpone
• various packages in debian-ports, but not a priority

  • hyperestraier 558586

  • premake 599789

  • vnc4 610852

• Be able to install at least the base from official mirror (now just missing dhcp)

• Integrate DDE to get nowadays' network support.

• Get Xorg + gnome/kde/xfce (xfce should work, kde is missing working dbus (due to local socket auth and bugs in select() cornercases)) + some webbrowser working (iceweasel 9 works, though not https).

• Fix ext2fs uncleanness at reboot http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/open_issues/sync_but_still_unclean_filesystem.html

• Switch to plain sysv startup?

• Enable console by default? (we now have proper kernel message relaying)

• fix "su" to root discrepancy (PATH does not include sbin etc.), apparently simply because shadow's su vs coreutils' su. Also see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/6488...

• Good archive coverage.
  • We're at 76%, kfreebsd was at 85% when it entered wheezy. Although probably not reachable, we can probably do better with
    • mono
    • fpc

• Fix at least the required, important and standard packages from http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/out_of_date.txt

• Try to fix the top of http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/graph-total-top.txt

Goals for later

• IPv6 support in d-i (after it is settled for linux).

• upgrade libfuse compatibility to >= 2.6.5, with fuse_lowlevel.h

• add cpuid-based autoloading of libc0.3-i686

Developer info

• DD-accessible machines running GNU/Hurd:

  • hurd-i386: see ArchiveQualification/hurd-i386

• ArchiveQualification/hurd-i386

• Debian GNU/Hurd port on alioth

• Debian GNU/Hurd Development

• TODO file, with all sorts tasks we need help on

• NOTES about package status in official archive

• Packages with uninstallable Build-Depends

• Uninstallable packages (EDOS debcheck)

• Basic porting information

• Our patches directory

• Patches that are only needed for Debian (either because they're fixed-upstream, or because of their Debian-specific nature)

• Patches submitted in the Debian BTS

• General FTBFS also affect us (dschepler@gmail.com)

• General FTBFS also affect us (lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net)

• Build logs of Debian GNU/Hurd

• Hurd package on alioth

• crosshurd on alioth

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