Andreas Metzler wrote: > The debian-edu sourcepackage generates 23 metapackages which only > consist of dependencies. The dependencies are generated semi > automatically by the script gen-control. - It basically takes a task > file that lists packages that should be depended on, checks which ones > are actually available in $dist and generates a control file that lists > the availble packages as "Depends" and the unavailable ones as > "Suggests". Currently "testing" is used as $dist. > > Currently education-standalone-extras blocks kdemultimedia. > education-standalone-extras depends on kmix because the old version of > kdemultimedia provides kmix. See #246463 for details. This is exactly the reason that tasksel was switched from using task packages to using Task override fields. Well, one of the reasons. The other reasons will probably bite the debian-edu packages shortly, if nothing is done. IIRC another one of the problems is what happens when a buggy package is dropped from testing, and debian-edu-* depends on it. Temporarily removing the debian-edu packages from testing will not fix these problems. There is a good chance the debian-edu packages will not be able to get back into sarge, and that the release team will become fed up with dealing with them. I think we should investigate using a tasksel-like mechanism for these packages. This will require some more diligence on the debian-edu side to make sure that all the packages we want to be installed as part of debian-edu profiles are in sarge; otherwise we may get debian-edu installs that are missing some packages. But it will not block packages from entering sarge and it will be more robust. I've only been slowly becoming familiar with debian-edu over the past two or three weeks and only noticed it was subject to this set of problems last Tuesday, so I don't have a full proposal for how to restructure the debian-edu tasks yet, but using the tasksel Task overrides seems like a very workable approach. -- see shy jo
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