As we all know Maemo5 is little be outdated and will rust every day more and more. But Maemo5 is good OS and N900 is still very good (/the best) device.

I found several discussions about rebasing Maemo5 to the newer Debian, most notably: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=534096&postcount=3 (but without chrooting and dual booting) and http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=43188 (but newer debian, and allowing squeeze packages to depends squeeze packages).

I have a dream: N900 running stock new Debian, recompiled for N900, with bunch of Maemo/Hildon packages and as little as possible closed source Nokia packages.

I started to compile Debian 6.0 (squeeze) on Maemo5 toolchain. Seems very first needed is newer dpkg, 1.15.8.13 (done). I also think that squeeze must be done before wheezy (I mean we can't skip straight to the wheezy).

I'm currently setting up sbdmock (http://wiki.maemo.org/Building_packages_with_sbdmock) for Maemo5 (http://cc.oulu.fi/~rantalai/maemo5/squeeze/maemo5.cfg).

I'm figuring out optification and I think most clean way is to change /usr to the /dev/mmcblk0p2. Will this solve whole optification?

Here is my current (high risk) situation: http://cc.oulu.fi/~rantalai/maemo5/squeeze/

Testing:
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There are now also repo for wheezy:
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/rantalai...5/wheezy/repo/

You need newer apt-get to use it, because of some http-redirecting magic.
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So what you think? Do you share my dream? Is this something CSSU could do? Or will this fit better for Hildon Foundation? For sure I know this is not for extras.