Re: Rewriting Debian Jr. packages
Hi Jean-Michel,
On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 03:45:42PM +0200, Jean-Michel Philippe wrote:
> It's been a long time we had talked about merging DoudouLinux packages
> lists into Debian Jr. I'm sorry I've been very busy for a while and
> could not do this until now. However, we are now closer to move to
> Squeeze – yes, only Squeeze – so I started to look at Junior packages
> lists and saw they aren't arranged as our lists are arranged. Moreover
> we have several additional requirements because we want to provide CD's,
> ARM builds and later we hope a multilingual DVD. The full set of
> packages can then not be installed on every target, which means we have
> to find a way to separate package lists into subsets.
Thanks for keeping the ball rolling.
> Right now I have the following ideas in mind, please comment if you
> disagree or have better ideas:
>
> * merge gnome/kde Junior lists into other lists
> * create *-extra packages lists
> * create *-live-* packages lists for our LiveCD
> * use Recommends/Suggests for applications we're not using in
> DoudouLinux
> * create *-l10n-* packages to install language-specific packages
>
> Please note that the latest proposal would probably introduce around 30
> new packages as of writing. I think they should all provide a virtual
> package "junior-l10n" that is recommended by the main junior task, if
> this is possible to do that with the blend tool. This way not all these
> packages would be installed by the Junior task.
In the same manner as Ben I will not try to put any of my ideas on you
which only could lead to some demotivation on your side. Just try to
implement your vision. The only thing I would really like to make sure
is that you are sure you understood the Blends techniques in their
current state (as described here[1].) I consider the way we are
handling sets of packages as a reasonable thing (which for sure deserves
enhancements - ideas welcome.) So please make sure you understand the
technique behind and feel free to ask if something remains unclear.
Kind regards
Andreas.
[1] http://blends.alioth.debian.org/blends/
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