Re: metapackages
On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 07:37:43PM +0100, rosea.grammostola wrote:
>> Seems to be a bug in apt in Lucid. It's fixed in maverick.
Thanks for reporting this. We probably should document this issue somehow.
> And do you tell me if you have a fix for the unwanted dependency you get
> when not using tasksel (now solved with equivs)?
To answer your latest question why all other Blends seem to use the
tasksel package: Well, I actually do not really remember any more. It
was introduced by Debian Edu and turned out to be something like a
default and thus the problem was not detected that the dependency is
enforced even if there is no tasksel package created.
However, when thinking twice about this I wonder why at all there is
this strong dependency for all single metapackages. A Suggests should
perfectly be enough. I have to think about this twice.
To answer your question about the timing: It's a bit blocked because
bugs #577062 and #601959 (which is actually the same bug) have high
priority (the tasksel issue is not because finally it does not affect
any of the packages in Squeeze). So I would like to aks you for some
patience. It would probably a good idea if you file a bug report and
post your equivs configuration as a temporary hack around it. I think
if the bug above is settled and the packages in Squeeze are fine I
will care for the problem (7 to 14 days).
Kind regards and thanks for your comments
Andreas.
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