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FreeSmartphone.Org packaging team

See DebianOnFreeRunner for user and general information. This page contains information for the pkg-fso packaging team.

Goal

We want to add the applications and tools developed by [http://www.freesmartphone.org ?FreeSmartphone.Org] for devices like the [http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_FreeRunner Openmoko FreeRunner] to Debian and ensure that Debian can be used as the system on these devices. After all, Debian is the universal operating system.

Communication

We share the mailing list with the upstream [http://www.freesmartphone.org ?FreeSmartphone.Org] developers: http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-standards and as our IRC channel, we use #openmoko-cdevel on freenode.

Resources

We have a repository on pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org that contains our packages until they are included in Debian, both for armel and desktop architectures. You can access them using these apt lines: 

deb http://pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org/debian unstable main
deb-src http://pkg-fso.alioth.debian.org/debian unstable main

To suppress apt authentication warnings you can upload the pkg-fso-keyring package after adding the repository: 

apt-get install pkg-fso-keyring
apt-get update

Please be aware that some packages might depend on packages in Debian experimental. You thus need to activate it in your sources.list. By default no packages not explicitly needed will be pulled from experimental.

To upload packages to this repository with dput, you can use this configuration snippet: 

[pkg-fso]
method = scp
fqdn = alioth.debian.org
#login = someone
incoming = /home/groups/pkg-fso/repository/incoming
post_upload_command = ssh alioth.debian.org /home/groups/pkg-fso/repository/bin/process_incoming

Packages

This is an overview of the packages maintained by pkg-fso:

  • zhone: The demo UI
  • zhone-session: Init scripts to start zhone on system start. Do not install this on your desktop.
  • frameworkd: System daemon providing most phone features via dbus.
  • gsm0710muxd: GSM multiplexer daemon
  • fso-utils: Various tools, including mdbus, mickeyterm, uboot-envedit

VCS

Some packages, especially those that are in a git repository upstream, are maintained in git repositories, using git-buildpackage:

There is also a repository for various other files, including the installation script

Bugs and TODO

These bugs are relevant for us and should be monitored regularly:

These should be looked into:

  • Make zhone use the regular installed Bitstream font, not it’s own copy (compiled into the theme)
  • modify U-Boot environment variables from a running system. This is partly working in the install.sh script, but needs more testing and debugging.

  • directly install uImage.bin on the rootfs (it seems that uBoot does not support large sdcards. Feels like 1998 :-))

  • Automatically detect a USB client device at the USB port, and switch to host mode.
  • Replace the Android ringtone by a DFSG-fee one, maybe package it separately.
  • zhone-session should start a proper session (su -l maybe)
  • Packaging of nice apps:

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