Re: How do tasks work now?
>> Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org> writes:
> There are three ways to create tasks.
Unless I'm missing something, I see only two:
> On startup, the tasksel program will read
> /usr/share/tasksel/debian-tasks.desc for information about what tasks
> are available and their descriptions and sections.
One.
Entries on that file look like this:
Task: chinese-s
Section: l10n
Description: simplified Chinese environment
This task installs programs, data files, fonts, and
documentation that makes it easier to use Debian for
Simplified-Chinese-related operations.
so I guess this is only the task's description and it doesn't contain
information about which packages belong to a task...
> Next it will read /var/lib/dpkg/available. Task: fields in that file
> can be used to state that a package belongs to a task or tasks.
... which is provided here. Now that's my question. How does the Task
field get there "officially". Just get people to agree with each other
on a task name and add it to each package's debian/control or does one
have to contact the bf team first to "sanction" the task or is there an
override file for this or what? Obviously you have to contact the bf
anyway to get the description included in debian-tasks.desc ... Are
there guidelines for what's a task and what's not?
> Also, the package names are used to identify task packages (matching
> "task-*").
And two.
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