[Soc-coordination] Status Report for Bootstrappable Debian, Weeks 12 & 13

[Peter Pentchev]

Hi,

During the final two weeks of GSoC I reworked my guile-2.0 multi-arch
patch a couple of times under the guidance of Helmut Grohne, finally
resulting in #757591 - "[guile-2.0] Convert to Multi-Arch".
Also, I filed more "allow bootstrapping without some of the build
dependencies in the stage1 build profile" bugs:
- src:highlight - #758418 (build), #758420 (control)
- src:shared-mime-info - #758421 (build a new arch-indep package)
- src:cyrus-sasl2 - #758461 (build), #758462 (control)
- src:libproxy - #758465 (B-D on zlib), #758466 (build), #758467
  (control)

I also followed up to a maintainer's question about my proposed patch in
#721352 (allow src:ustr to be cross-built) and explained at length how
to use Helmut Grohne's rebootstrap tool to, well, bootstrap a new host
architecture and, in the process, set up a cross-build environment for
testing one's own packages.

Well, I guess that's all for the GSoC project, at least during the
official coding period.  With what I've learned and with the interesting
problems I've met, I do believe that there will be more cross-building
and bootstrapping patches coming from me.  Thanks to both my mentors and
the Debian GSoC administrators for their patience with me!

G'luck,
Peter

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