Debian Conference 2015 The annual Debian developer meeting

Speaker: Cédric Boutillier
Go over a few Ruby packages, discussing ruby-specific issues and how to solve them.

Speaker: Wookey
Discussion of the state of Multiarch, Crossbuilding, Bootstrapping, and Cross-toolchains in Debian. There has been good progress in these areas recently, but numerous issues remain, such as Multiarch dpkg/apt/aptitude inconsistencies, cross-dependencies, and how Cross-toolchains in the archive should look. Not everyone is interested in all of this so the session will be spit into chunks: 11:00 Multiarch 13:00 Crossbuilding and bootstraping 15:00 Cross-toolchain packaging Agenda: Multiarch things: * Multiarch (not!) in Policy * dpkg/apt/aptitude inconsistencies * cross-dependencies * bootstrapping-related issues * embedded interpreter problem Agreement on the correct interpretations of some things is needed: 1) if a package foo with arch:A depends on bar:any where bar is m-a:no and arch:A, is that dependency satisfied? 2) Do we accept https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/InterpreterProposal? If not what should we do instead? 3) Should we declare 666772 (apt cross-build-dep handling should be liberal with Arch: all packages) wontfix officially (and document corollary) ? Crossbuilding: General roadmap - what still needs doing? Feedback from users on what we have so far is very welcome. * Cross-dependencies * Multiarching more packages * toolchain support packages * Cmake crossing - state? * Using build profiles * sbuild issues * Documentation Bootstrapping Followup from Helmut's talk on Monday. Cross-Toolchains gcc-5 uses -cross standalone packages gcc-4.9 uses wdotap multiarch packages * Everyone happy with standalone packages? * Should cross-toolchains be multibbed? * What set of toolchains should be pre-built in the archive? * What about toolchains not provided as binaries? Cross-gcc source-generator OK? * What ancilliary packages are needed? Full details in gobby document on gobby.debian.org in the path debconf15/bof/Multiarch-Crossbuilding-Bootstrap-Toolchains

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Breaking your machine with dracut workshop

Speaker: Paul Wise
During this session we will introduce Debian's derivatives related infrastructure, work on improving it and figure out plans for the future.

Speaker: Holger Levsen
Let's make some good example packages reproducible. (Or work on changes to dak or do some other reproducible hands on hacking.)

Speaker: Paul Wise
The Debian derivatives census is generating source package debdiffs between Debian and our derivatives. We'll review how it works, get stuck into reviewing patches and finish up with a brain dump of what we saw, possible issues in the patch generator and future plans for derivatives patches.

Speakers: Paul Wise, Steve McIntyre
We will share knowledge about wiki work and do some work on the wiki, probably in these areas: * existing bug reports * known issues * moin bug reports/etc * wiki pages about the wiki * general wiki content Please join us if you would like to help out with the wiki or learn more about it. If there is enough interest we may hold more sessions.