Bug#855151: #855151: tasksel: should not be Priority: important
Hi,
Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
> Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org> (2019-11-01):
> > Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 11:52:22PM +0200, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > > > > > tasksel is currently at Priority: important and thus installed in every
> > > > > > installation, including chroots installed via debootstrap. It doesn't
> > > > > > seem a useful package to install in chroots though.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It would be nice if d-i would install tasksel (and maybe remove it at
> > > > > > the end of the installation again?) so the priority of the tasksel and
> > > > > > tasksel-data packages could be downgraded.
> > > > > I think that's indeed a fair topic for the buster release cycle.
> > > > Should we downgrade tasksel to something like optional now?
> > >
> > > now indeed seems to be a good moment for this. (and I'd appreciate this
> > > change for the reasons Ansgar pointed out.)
> >
> > Just committed, thanks.
>
> AFAICT from reading the bug log, it seems the part where the priority is
> downgraded was implemented. But was there any modifications to ensure
> that d-i would still install it, so that pkgsel can run tasksel? Or was
> such modifications not needed at all?
For specific reasons (I was unable to build the installer / the netboot
target here locally because I was still on oldstable, for other reasons)
I could not test the impacts of reducing the priority to optional.
So my approach was the try-and-error way to simply see what happens
(sorry for my ignorance on this, assuming such approach is acceptable in this
early development stage).
Because of some hassle with the Debian archive while processing the
tasksel 3.57 upload (done by nicoo), my tasksel_3.58 upload did not worked as
usual, and 3.58 did not reached unstable until now.
Thus, the 'dropping priority of tasksel to optional' changing did not
reach the daily builds of d-i yet :-((
...
Given that I upgraded my machine to Buster last week, there is a new chance,
that I can now give it a try, and test what happens actually with the latest
tasksel changes ...
So long
holgerw
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