Re: Bug#758116: Allow to select Blends selection during installation - just "DE", "Web server", "Mail server" is NOT enough

[Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org>]

Hi Cyril,

On 21.05.2016 22:58, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> I'm very much not happy with tasksel's picking up ", and I would very much prefer if it
> would only look at its own debian-tasks.desc when running from the
> installer. Any objections?

Just to clarify this, since I was the one who actually did and uploaded
the change:

It was not my intention to hijack the installation process. In some
earlier mail on bug#758116, you mentioned that you cannot promise that
you don't know if/when you have time to look into the integration of the
Blends into the installer yourself [1]. For me, this sounds that we have
to do it ourself if we want to get it in. And I tried it openly: The
current solution was proposed in the bug#758116 [2], which was mirrored
to debian-boot@l.d.o, and I asked explicitly for comments before the
upload. Since no-one replied, I re-assigned the bug to src:blends (since
this was the proposed place to actually fix it) and uploaded the new
version with the package priority needed to get it into the basic system.

I feel now a bit unhappy that there was no discussion about the topic
before the upload, but I don't see what I could have done better
(otherwise please give me a hint so that I can learn from it). However,
as I said, that was not meant to be hijacking. If we find a better
solution that does not need to include the debian-blends-tasks.desc, we
can remove it. IMO it *is* however a good idea to keep tasksel using
everything it finds in /usr/share/tasksel/descs/; this enables a
relatively easy way to customize Debian here. Within Debian, we as a
community should be able to find a solution that does not need to secure
the installation process from "whatever people have managed to get into
a basic system".

Best regards

Ole

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758116#220
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758116#240