Re: Bug#726492: debian-edu: Task files are specifying a lot of not existing / renamed packages
Hi,
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 03:01:28AM +0300, Bob Bib wrote:
> 2014-09-18, Andreas Tille:
> > Would you volunteer to go further than this start
> > and review all tasts which is deperately needed?
>
> Too much cleanup work needed, not for me, sorry...
> However, I tried to revise the 'desktop-lxde' task (see below).
>
> > I'd vote to grant you commit permissions in this case to
> > maintain the files directly rather than patches in BTS.
>
> Frankly saying,
> I don't have an intention to maintain this package, sorry again.
>
> Maybe some automated tool should be developed,
> to query the Debian PTS for package availability?..
This tool exists but it is not sufficient to wild guess what additional
packages are replacing the ones that vanished.
> Petter Reinholdtsen:
> > Bug #726492 reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository
> > ...
> > + * Drop some obsolete (nonexisting/renamed) packages from tasks/desktop-other.
> > + Patch from Bob Bib (Closes: #726492).
>
> Unfortunately, not yet:
> my patch is only a small part of of a huge cleanup needed here...
I'd strongly recommend to spend 3-4 hours on this task.
The Blends logfiles I mentioned in the bug report are sufficient
help to do it properly.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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