goals for a stable GNU/kFreeBSD release

[Robert Millan]

Hi!

I've put together a list of packages that need fixing before we can opt for
being candidate to a Debian release.  When this list is reduced to zero, I
think we'll have good arguments to convince the Debian community that we're
ready (at least for an unstable archive).

All of them require some sort of work, although difficulty varies greatly
(some of them are trivial stuff).  If you think something should be added,
please reply to this message.


Base system as installed by debootstrap:
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at			- ftbfs
console-common		- not for us
console-data		- not for us
console-tools		- not for us
dhcp-client		- can of worms (broken due to incompatible ifconfig)
dpkg			- fixed in experimental
exim4			- patch sent upstream ML
fdutils			- not for us?
ifupdown		- not fully working due to incompatible route
initscripts		- hacked to work with incompatible utils
ipchains		- not for us (pf)
iptables		- not for us (pf)
iputils-ping		- not for us (inetutils-ping)
klogd			- not for us (inetutils-syslogd)
libacl1			- not for us?
libattr1		- not for us?
libcap1			- not for us
libgdbm3		- ftbfs. libtool?
libpcap0.7		- ftbfs. patch in BTS and upstream BTS
libssl0.9.7		- ftbfs. patch sent upstream
libtextwrap1		- config.guess
logrotate		- weird problem with inetutils-inetd, see #294833
makedev			- not for us (we have devfs)
man-db			- config.guess
manpages		- many Linux-isms.  needs package split (post-sarge)
modutils		- not for us (kld*)
ncurses			- ftbfs
net-tools		- not for us (inetutils-tools)
netbase			- see #256919 (and take a cluebat)
netkit-inetd		- not for us (inetutils-inetd)
nvi			- config.guess
pciutils		- patch in BTS but not upstream AFAIK. (#292324)
ppp			- not for us? could be ported but using FreeBSD version seems easier
pppconfig		- just a frontend, would need some work
pppoe			- no idea
pppoeconf		- no idea
procps			- patch in BTS and applied for next upstream release
sysklogd		- not for us (inetutils-syslogd)
util-linux		- needs work in upstream (Guillem is working on it)


Build-essential:
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binutils		- upstream rejected ld.so hack
gcc			- fixed in gcc-4.0
glibc			- no comment


Other very important stuff we can't live without
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parted			- either this, or a working fdisk
grub			- or grub2.  whatever that fully works.
kfreebsd-headers	- no comment
freebsd-utils		- no comment
cdebootstrap		- hangs in infin loop.  also, see #285785
debian-installer	- we need a bunch or dependencies first

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