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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
- 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.
Pre-build image files (*.img.*) at http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/
?Debian_GNU/Hurd_FAQ
TheHurd page. (Merge?)
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 jessie
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
- Good archive coverage.
- We're at 79%, kfreebsd was at 85% when it entered wheezy. Although probably not reachable, we can probably do better with
- mono
- fpc
- nodejs
- We're at 79%, kfreebsd was at 85% when it entered wheezy. Although probably not reachable, we can probably do better with
- 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
- integrated in the hurd package
- to remove
(hurd-any) cvsfs, to remove (provided by util-hurd)
ITP: 669647
eglibc, pre-build with 2.17-98 patch fixing dhcpd
- emacs-defaults
- default to emacs24
exim4, 698092 fixed, to remove
- gdb
- Add hardware watch support.
grub2, remainder, to remove
(hurd-any) gopherfs, to remove (provided by util-hurd)
ITP: 669648
(hurd-any) httpfs, to remove (provided by util-hurd)
hurd, to remove
- icon
- -k option issue fixed by exec_file_name patch in libc.
isc-dhcp
- 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, but newer version has new occurrence of PATH_MAX
libpciaccess, to remove
libpthread-stubs, to remove
libxcb, to remove
mlocate, to remove
(hurd-any) netio, replaced by socketio from util-hurd, to remove.
- ntp
- Ship ntpdate at least.
pam, to remove
- (hurd-any) random-egd
- make it an alternative to Marcus' C implementation
- can live without
- can postpone
ruby-sqlite3, to remove
ruby2.0, to remove
sendmail, to remove
(hurd-any) smbfs-hurd, to remove (provided by util-hurd)
ITP: 669653
sysvinit, to remove
663009, fixed.
(hurd-any) tarfs, to remove (provided by util-hurd)
ITP: 669654
- (hurd-any) util-hurd
- (hurd-any) wireless-tools-gnumach
- just for wifi, can live without
- postpone
- x86info
xorg, to remove
drop openchrome dependency, 706889
- (hurd-any) cardmgr-gnumach
- various packages in debian-ports, but not a priority
- Be able to install at least the base from official mirror (now just missing dhcp)
Get Xorg + gnome/kde/xfce/lxde (lxde is working, 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, 739658).
Switch by default to plain sysv startup
fix "su" to root discrepancy (PATH does not include sbin etc.), apparently simply because shadow's su vs coreutils' su.
see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.utilities.util-linux-ng/6488
newer coreutils drops su (http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2013/07/msg00057.html), switch to util-linux' su once util-linux is updated
or rather switch to shadow's, like linux, 737805
No more binaries built in "use debian-ports" era (http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2013/07/msg00014.html):
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, http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/libfuse.html
- add cpuid-based autoloading of libc0.3-i686
- add autoloading of libc0.3-xen
Developer info
- DD-accessible machines running GNU/Hurd:
hurd-i386: see ArchiveQualification/hurd-i386
Patches that are only needed for Debian (either because they're fixed-upstream, or because of their Debian-specific nature)
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/03/msg00015.html - Debian pushes development of the Hurd port (1)