Hi Andreas, Arg. :-( I was hoping that (ideally) Phil or (maybe) I would be able to help with this, as we discussed at DC18. That's not happened, basically due to lack of time and too many projects. :-( On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 09:22:39AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: >Hi Cyril, > >thanks for your continuous work on the installer and lots of new great >features. > >On Sat, Feb 02, 2019 at 12:45:32PM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >> We need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, >> so please try it. > >Sorry for repeating my question[1] but it is not clear to me whether >support of Blends is a planed feature of the Buster installer. From >release to release we realise that it is missing (for Stretch it came >very close - see bug #851555). From some face to face meetings at >DebConf I've got the impression that it is all about having an >hierarchical tasksel (historical fun fact - first bug about this was in >2003 #186085 where the request to add Blends was de facto refused since >tasksel is not hierarchical). Right. >I'm long enough in Open Source that I understood asking others to >implement features that do not belong into their own field of interest >is not very promising. But it would help me a lot to get at least a >kind of authoritative answer to my question: If I would try to work on >a patch for tasksel to enable hierarchical selection in the form > > [ ] Debian Pure Blends > > --> if selected open a new screen presenting Blends > >would this be accepted for the Buster+1 installer? (I think its way to >late for Buster to implement this.) If I get a definitive "Yes, that >would be welcome" I'd stop fixing lots of bugs in Debian Med packages >and shift my priorities a bit more into this direction. But before I'd >give up some urgently needed QA work I'd like to hear the opinions of >others whether a hierarchical tasksel is a wanted feature that has any >chance to be accepted and be used in the Buster+1 installer. I would definitely support such a refactoring for tasksel after Buster is released, and I will make it a priority for my development time then. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com Into the distance, a ribbon of black Stretched to the point of no turning back
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