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Re: Should tasksel be installable on all archs?



Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

> Holger Levsen wrote:
>> Hi Joey,
>> 
>> On Sunday 27 January 2008 00:15, Joey Hess wrote:
>> > laptop-detect should be built on all arches. I don't know why none of
>> > the recent versions (for nearly a year) have been tried on s390.
>> 
>> AIUI because the s390 maintainer set "Not-for-Us" on 2007 May 27 , see 
>> http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=laptop-detect
>
> Well I don't know why the s390 arch maintainers want to make things more
> complicated for the rest of us. (It's not as if s390 is the only
> architecture to not have any laptops.)

While it makes more sense to not have a useless package installed on
every installation.

We could drop laptop-detect for those other arches too and make it
logical for everyone.

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