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Re: Task "main" for Debian Games



Hi,

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 06:16:00PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote:
> > ... which fits Enricos statement (to which I perfectly agree) that
> > a well designed task is something else than doing proper DebTagging.
> 
> The current main task file is really a raw version and only a
> demonstration how you can quickly obtain a list of all binary games
> packages in main and display them as a task. Of course you need a more
> fine grained approach for the final product. An "all-games-in-main"
> metapackage should later depend on the already existing separate blends
> tasks for games and include some filters / queries to remove unwanted
> packages.

I think your approach is perfect to get a rough set of tasks files.
 
> From my point of view DebTags is just a pool of information, the
> database, from which you can easily construct queries such as
> 
> "All action games AND NOT data packages AND NOT server packages"
> 
> However I'm now more and more inclined to drop the DebTags idea, given
> the fact that only three people want to attend to the DebTags party
> anyway, and to use that weekend to add the missing games to their
> corresponding tasks myself, remove conflicting/unwanted packages by hand
> and be done with it. Then let's create the metapackages and let those
> who are unhappy with them file bug reports and fix remaining issues in
> revision -2 -3 and so on until everyone is happy.

+1

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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