[Soc-coordination] Emdebian Proposal

[Neil Williams]

Emdebian uses a filter to select packages from the main Debian
repositories that are considered useful to embedded devices, excluding
the majority of packages. The results of processing the filter are
automated but maintaining the filter list is manual. This project seeks
to automate certain elements of the filtering process to cope with
three specific conditions:

   1. Packages which have been removed from Debian need to be removed
from the filter - on a per suite basis.
   2. Packages which have been added to Debian to meet the dependency
requirements of other packages already in the filter need to be added
to the filter.
   3. Packages need to migrate from unstable into testing in a manner
that ensures that all dependencies are met in each suite. 

Original idea [0] (arising from the addition of Emdebian to Debian
Weather [1]) and Debian Wiki page [2] (there is one potential student
already interested - Ricardo O'Donell).

(As a result of the ftp-master issues and the resulting backlog, the
current weather in Emdebian Grip is indicative of how useful this
proposal will be to Emdebian generally. Our current tasks simply take
too long.)

[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-embedded/2010/03/msg00060.html
[1] http://edos.debian.net/weather/
[2]
http://wiki.debian.org/RicardoO%27Donell/Package_Repository_Analysis_and_Migration_Automation

http://socghop.appspot.com/user/show/codehelp


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