Hi,I have been sitting with Andreas Tille half of the day and we looked at the debian-edu src:package.
As Andreas said, that the handling of task files is very similar to the handling of debian/control files, I raised my eye browse once I understood that the Depends: field is actually an alias for Recommends: in blends task files.
Sooo... This makes not much sense IMHO. Intuitively looking at the task concept.Thus, I'd like to propose quite an invasive change (that can be addressed easily).
(1) in blend packages that use Depends: we should replace those by Recommends: (2) changes the code in blends-dev in a away that package under Depends: in task
files _indeed_ end up under Depends: in debian/control.
-> we currently do sed hacks for some critical packages in
debian-edu and
move one package from Recommends: to Depends:
-> but there are actually more candidates...
Andreas mentioned an earlier discussion that meta packages should not
have packages under Depends:, only under Recommends:. For Debian Edu,
I slightly disagree with that, as we in Debian Edu really need some
package to get installed with our blends edu-task packages.
RFC! :-) Thanks, Mike -- DAS-NETZWERKTEAM mike gabriel, herweg 7, 24357 fleckeby mobile: +49 (1520) 1976 148 landline: +49 (4354) 8390 139 GnuPG Fingerprint: 9BFB AEE8 6C0A A5FF BF22 0782 9AF4 6B30 2577 1B31 mail: mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de, http://das-netzwerkteam.de
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