dpkg-cross maintenance status

[YAEGASHI Takeshi]

Hi,

Is there anyone who utilize dpkg-cross?

According to BTS, it seems that dpkg-cross has been left unmaintained
for more than 1 year...

I want to add SuperH support to dpkg-cross (I've just reported as the
wishlist, Bug#127723), and there are several bugs I want to fix too.

Is there any hope that these wishes will be heard?

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[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

YAEGASHI Takeshi <t...@keshi.org> writes:

> According to BTS, it seems that dpkg-cross has been left unmaintained
> for more than 1 year...

Have you asked the maintainer?

[David Schleef]

On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 09:44:16AM +0900, YAEGASHI Takeshi wrote:
>
> Yes, for embedded platforms with limited resources cross compling is
> quite important, especially when you want to build a large set of
> software such as Debian distrubution.
>
> But as you know we currently have much troubule with cross building
> Debian packages, even though most of the problem can be easily solved
> with a few changes.
>
> I often feel that most source packages might have a bit more cross
> compile awareness. Of course I should report that to the BTS to the
> extent not annoying maintainers.

I've been fixing packages when I notice problems, and sending the
patches to the maintainer. Most maintainers understand the
usefulness of cross-compiling. Perhaps some day, we might have
cross-compiling as part of Debian policy (or at least a tag for
cross-compiliability), but I certainly wouldn't advocate that now,
as it would cause too much turmoil.

However, I'm almost to the point of getting a cross autobuilder set
up, so one of the results of that will at least be a list of packages
that cross compile.

dave...