[maemo-developers] MeeGo

[From: Yves-Alexis Perez]

On 16/02/2010 10:15, Kees Jongenburger wrote:

> Hi, Debian does handle "multiarch" ok in repositories and such but
> wake up and look around it is not special or anything. Debian is far
> far behind when is comes to "multiarch" and real device support.

Multi-arch is supposed to be implemented for Squeeze (next release) and
the work as started, though some stuff is not yet decided (I can't
really say much more as it's not an easy situation and I don't know
enough about that)

 They
> only provide  unoptimized generic armv5 code
> http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/ and the way debian works (no cross
> compiling) makes it a pain to port to other platforms.

That has not much to do with multi-arch though. Cross compilation is
nice but it's not exactly required. Sure the infrastructure could be
nicer to system on chip, but it's basically a *pain* to be generic
enough if you still want to provide packages usable for everyone and
still be able to use recent features.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis