Re: Bug#543256: tasksel maintainer's perspective
On Thursday 27 August 2009, Joey Hess wrote:
> So, that change was made in tasksel three months ago, near to the start
> what was, AFAIK at the time, a 1.5 year release cycle. This was done in
> full knowledge that enabling recommends would take some time to sort
So why did you not inform the d-cd team of that change then? And you also
know that historically such issues have in general not been sorted out by
d-cd maintainers proper, but more by people like you and me who's primary
concern was D-I.
> out, including getting debian-cd to disable NORECOMMENDS and maybe
> handle recommends more intelligently; dealing with demotion of
> unnecessary recommends; and dealing with any size increase issues.
> If the current release timeframe[1] is not long enough to sort these
> issues out, perhaps the release team should be told about that. Or
> perhaps someone will want to revert this -- but you get to own all the
> issues of the installer not installing recommends while maintainers
> assume it will.
Right, so basically you're saying that you no longer want to explicitly
list desired Recommends in tasksel and have decided to do that by simply
dumping the problem on another team, while actively working to increase
the problem. IMO tasksel is a much more logical place for it.
> Oddly it didn't seem to be treated as a big deal by a lot of people
> when it happened to stable CD1. :-/
Agreed. I've been very disappointed with the very long time it took to fix
that simple issue. You'll have noticed that I jumped in straight away to
help resolve the issue after you filed the BR as I do feel CD1 is
important.
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