Hi Petter, On Sa 05 Aug 2017 11:52:57 CEST, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Ole Streicher]The number of blends is countable: I personally like the idea to first replace all "Depends" with "Recommends" in all tasks files, and then change the behaviour of the "blends-dev" package. We should also introduce a format identifier to make future changes easier; so my proposal would be: 1. We write a (maybe preliminary) format description and publish it under a well-defined URL 2. We create bugs for all known build-dependencies of blends-dev to 2.1 'sed s/^Depends:/Recommends:/ -i tasks/*` 2.2 insert a "Format: https://blends.d.o/format"; as first line to indicate that the new format is used 3. Once all switched (should be not that difficult, due to the straightforward change), we upload a new version of blends-dev that checks the format id and a) either exits with error if it is not there or a wrong one b) prints a depretation warning and proceeds with the old style in that case Because of the trivial change, I would prefer a).What about doing it the other way around, and change behaviour of blends-dev for the tasks with a format line and leave the old behaviour
The issue about the tasks files is that they look like debian/control, but behave entirely differently.
as it is for those without it? This will be more like debhelper compatiblity levels, and we can handle many different behaviours without breaking existing packages.
We break and immediately fix existing packages. I have already started downgrading various packages in debian-edu task files from Depends: to Recommends:.
For the other blends, afaict Andreas is open to downgrading all Depends: to Recommends:, too. Problematic are blend packages that exist on the planet and are not in Debian.
Is anyone here maintaining blend packages that have not been uploaded to Debian? If so, please speak up.
This way the debian-edu package could set 'Format: .../format/2' or similar to get the new behaviour, and the others might migrate at their own leisure.
If we want to support blend packages outside of Debian, we probably have to had something like that to the header.
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