I called blend-gen-control but can not find any output.
The idea to queery the packages table seems to be clever at first sight
but finally this is a "circular dependency". Blend-gen-control is used
to create metapackages and these will be uploaded to Debian and from
there the information ends up in the packages table. So on one hand you
have no chance to change these metadata nor do you get anything for new
packages. So we need to find a different solution: For the moment this
is very simple: We just fix the values:
Priority: extra
Section: misc
The later is debatable but for the moment it would work. Perhaps we
need to add a Section field directly into the tasks files to get better
control over this value (and move this metadate to the blends_metadata
table). As far as I see it currently "Priority: extra" is the way to go
for metapackages. This was discussed previously and we just can leave
it as is.
I think we need to make sure that *every* information will propagate
into UDD. If you are interested you can perfectly try to dive into
this. It is
git://git.debian.org/git/collab-qa/udd.git
and you need to redefine the table columns (see dir sql/) and adapt
udd/blends_metadata_gatherer.py to read in the data.
You are perfectly right that this is a flaw inside the Blends table
structure. The reason for this is that when I wrote this code I did not
hat the metapackage creation in mind but rather the pure set of packages
involved. I have no really good suggestion whet to do here. I'll try to
think about this - suggestions welcome.
You probably mean debian-mentors and yes, I'm reading this list. Let's
wait for another 24h and lets see if wee need to find another wording.
As said above: I can not see any output in control/ of taskdesc/. Any
idea what might be wrong?