Bug#883297: "Packages: list" field removed from tasksel control file

[Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>]

Package: blends-dev
Severity: important

Hi,

I intend to create a new set of metapackages for Debian Med.  After the
generation using blends-dev 0.6.100 I realised the following diff:

diff --git a/debian-med-tasks.desc b/debian-med-tasks.desc
index 40e4191..6108c40 100644
--- a/debian-med-tasks.desc
+++ b/debian-med-tasks.desc
@@ -1,817 +1,61 @@
+Task: debian-med
+Relevance: 7
+Section: debian-med
+Description: Debian Med Pure Blend
+ .
+
 Task: med-bio
+Parent: debian-med
 Section: debian-med
 Description: Debian Med bioinformatics packages
  This metapackage will install Debian packages for use in molecular biology,
  structural biology and other biological sciences.
-Relevance: 10
-Key:
+Test-new-install: mark show
+Key: 
  med-bio
-Packages: list
- abacas
- abyss
- acedb-other
- acedb-other-belvu
- acedb-other-dotter
- adapterremoval
- adun-core
- aegean
- aevol
...


In other words:  The field

   Packages: list

is missing (for all tasks).  I suspect this might be connected to the
s/Depends/Recommends change in blends-dev 0.6.99.  Please correct me
if I'm wrong (since I'm not a tasksel expert) but this is an unwanted
side effect, right?

Mike, could you have a look?

Thanks a lot

       Andreas.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages blends-dev depends on:
ii  debconf    1.5.61
pn  debhelper  <none>
ii  make       4.1-9.1

blends-dev recommends no packages.

Versions of packages blends-dev suggests:
pn  blends-doc  <none>