Margarita Manterola <marga@debian.org> writes: > I call for votes on the following resolution with regards to #846002: > > ==== RESOLUTION ==== > > Background > > The blends-tasks package was uploaded in April 2016 setting its priority to > important. The result of this change was that the package started getting > automatically installed by debootstrap, with the intended effect of causing the > list of tasks shipped by the package to be displayed by tasksel in the > debian-installer. > > Even though the debian-installer maintainer complained in May 2016 that he did > not agree with this approach with regards to including external packages in the > default tasksel screen, the important priority remains until today. > > In December 2016, changes were made in the tasksel package so that it no longer > automatically displays external tasks as part of the debian-installer. > > The current state is that chroots created by debootstrap in unstable or testing > include the blends-tasks package, although the shipped tasks are not getting > displayed during the default installation. > > In #846002, the Technical Committee was asked by Holger Levsen to rule on the > priority of the blends-tasks package. In the discussion that followed, the > Committee was asked by Ole Streicher to additionally rule on whether the Blends > selection should be part of the Debian Stretch installer and who should maintain > the list of options displayed to the user in the future. > > Using the power of the Technical Committee to make a decision when asked to do > so (§6.1.3): > > 1. We acknowledge that the decision of which tasks to display during > installation falls within the jurisdiction of the debian-installer maintainers. > > 2. In the Committee's opinion the use of important priority is not appropriate > for the blends-tasks package according to the definition in the Debian policy > (§2.5). As it was set only as a means to an end, and since it no longer does > what was intended, we recommend that this change gets reverted. > > 3. We encourage the debian-installer maintainers to work together with other > teams -including the blends-tasks maintainers- to provide useful and popular > package selections through the debian-installer in future releases. > > ==== END OF RESOLUTION ==== > > Please vote [A] for acknowledging that this is under the jurisdiction of the > debian-installer maintainers, and [FD] for Further Discussion. Since I feel a conflict of interest due to being a D-I team member, I'll abstain. If that's unhelpful for some reason, feel free to record my vote as: A == FD Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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