report from the Emdebian/FAI Work Session in Extremadura 2008

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this is the co-authored report from the

=== Emdebian/FAI Work Session in Extremadura 2008 ===

A joyous meeting for a few days discussing and working on 
[http://emdebian.org|Emdebian] in Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain. The meeting and 
work session took place in the gnuLinEx center and was attended by 18 Debian 
contributors.

==== Lenny bug squashing results ====

RC bug squashing with 7 or 8 closed RC bugs affecting Lenny and 3 sid only 
ones. (Lesson learned: don't count the number of bugs, but list the bug 
numbers.)

==== Emdebian results ====

 * Cross-toolchain work - trying to fix gcc cross-multilib builds in mips/ppc. 
Problem lies with differnces between gcc and debian lib64 paths. Could be 
fixed with links in glibc. Disabled for now so that these arches 
cross-toolchains can build.
 * dpkg-cross gained cmake cross-build support
 * Documentation overhaul
 * emdebian Server overhauled and updated
 * Exploring the need for an Emdebian system based on coreutils instead of 
busybox.
 * Significant reductions in the size of glibc and tzdata for Emdebian 
(courtesy of Aurelien), expected to save 5Mb in all Emdebian root