Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important (was Re: Bug#846002: Lowering severity)
On 09.12.2016 08:37, Philip Hands wrote:
>> On Wed, 07 Dec 2016, Philip Hands wrote:
>>> It could be much improved by making it more obvious that the heading is
>>> a heading. Even if we're unable to stop headings having a checkbox, we
>>> could change the text and the hierarchy slightly to be something like
>>> this:
>>>
>>> [ ] === Debian Desktop Environments:
>>> [x] ... Gnome
>> [...]
>>> Would that cheer people up without needing a major rewrite of tasksel?
This improves the situation, and could probably done quite simple at the
same place where the ellipsis (...) is introduced:
https://sources.debian.net/src/tasksel/3.38/tasksel.pl/#L360-L366
One just needs to find out here that it is actually a heading.
> I think that should be a select, rather than a multi-select:
>
> --> standard desktop (will install $DESKTOP) <--
> standard server (includes ssh)
> other use cases
>
> (or however the UI presents it)
>
> The reason for the extra bits in brackets is that I've always thought
> the tasksel menu was hiding just a little too much of what was meant by
> the options.
I would vote for that, however we would need
1. someone willing *and* competent (the latter excludes myself) to
implement this in tasksel,
2. someone convincing Cyril that this is ready to go into Stretch:
On 08.12.2016 23:20, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> While it's clear to me we need to fix the blends situation at some point
> before the release (couldn't find time to do so yet; last resort option
> is masking all of them entirely), I'm rather dubious about changing the
> package selection/tasksel screen at this point of the release cycle.
Volunteers for any of those tasks?
Best regards
Ole
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