I, Marcin Juszkiewicz, apply for universe-contributor.

Who I am

• Debian user since 2000 year (m68k, x86, amd64)

• OpenEmbedded developer since 2004

• Linaro developer since 2010
• Ubuntu user since 2010

My Ubuntu story

Started using Debian in 2000 on my Amiga. Then moved to x86 land and stayed with it. Maintained "rox-filer" outside of Debian for nearly two years (then ended using it and someone other took it). Packaged "tex-skak" for friend and got it into Debian (gave maintainership for someone else).

I am using Ubuntu since April 2010 due to my move to Canonical. Before I used it only in virtual machines or on external servers - mostly for checking does OpenEmbedded and Poky Linux build systems works properly under new Ubuntu releases.

My involvement

As Linaro developer I am working on cross compilation support in Ubuntu. Most of my work is related to toolchain components (binutils, eglibc, gcc, linux).

Examples of my work / Things I'm proud of

Cross compilers blueprint and all bugs related to it which I reported and solved:

• replace dh_movefiles with dh_install

• merge cross build into "binary" target

• fix "control" target for cross builds

• [PR43847] fix wrong use of objdump during cross build

• Cross-compiler packages miss libgcc dbg packages breaking xdeb

• Cross-compilers fail to build twice in a row

• -source build-dep not needed when building cross-compilers

• Fix installing of libstdc++-pic for cross builds

• fix building for sysroot other then /

• Merge rules for cross builds into normal one

• [cross] cross-gcc-4.4 package should provide $triplet-gcc, g++ etc. symlinks

• [cross] Provide cross gcc-defaults package

• Allow to build just linux-libc-dev

• allow building intermediate stages for gcc

• allow building intermediate stages for eglibc

• provide packaging rules in gcc-4.5-source package

• provide packaging rules in linux-source binary package

• provide packaging rules in binutils-source binary package

• provide packaging rules in eglibc-source binary package

• provide unpatches sources in binutils-source package

• package binutils-arm-linux-gnueabi has priority optional in control file but extra in files list

• provide unpatches sources in eglibc-source package

• [cross] no gcc-4.4-arm-linux-gnueabi-base package

• sync rules.conf with gcc-4.5

• [cross] create libgcc1 and gcc-*-base packages for stage2 build

Other bugs:

• /openjdk/+bug/600278

Areas of work

• Packages already present in Ubuntu: gcc-4.4, gcc-4.5, linux, eglibc, binutils.

• Packages waiting for merge: armel-cross-toolchain-base, armel-cross-toolchain, gcc-defaults-armel-cross - bug 634494.

Worked directly with maintainers of affected packages:

• Matthias Klose
• Andy Whitcroft

Working also with Ubuntu/ARM members.

Things I could do better

Plans for the future

General

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