Re: Please (temporarily) remove debian-edu meta packages from testing
I'd like to foreward this posting to debian-custom which is
in fact the right list to post those kind of issues which concerns
all Custom Debian Distributions. Joey, you might perhaps consider
reading
http://people.debian.org/~tille/cdd/
your comments are more than welcome
Andreas.
On Fri, 7 May 2004, Joey Hess wrote:
> This is exactly the reason that tasksel was switched from using task
> packages to using Task override fields. Well, one of the reasons. The
> other reasons will probably bite the debian-edu packages shortly, if
> nothing is done. IIRC another one of the problems is what happens when a
> buggy package is dropped from testing, and debian-edu-* depends on it.
>
> Temporarily removing the debian-edu packages from testing will not fix
> these problems. There is a good chance the debian-edu packages will not
> be able to get back into sarge, and that the release team will become
> fed up with dealing with them.
>
> I think we should investigate using a tasksel-like mechanism for these
> packages. This will require some more diligence on the debian-edu side
> to make sure that all the packages we want to be installed as part of
> debian-edu profiles are in sarge; otherwise we may get debian-edu
> installs that are missing some packages. But it will not block packages
> from entering sarge and it will be more robust.
>
> I've only been slowly becoming familiar with debian-edu over the past
> two or three weeks and only noticed it was subject to this set of
> problems last Tuesday, so I don't have a full proposal for how to
> restructure the debian-edu tasks yet, but using the tasksel Task
> overrides seems like a very workable approach.
>
> --
> see shy jo
>
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