Re: What is keeping 'kde' metapackage out of Woody?
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 03:32:24PM -0800, tluxt wrote:
> 1) What is package kde? I've heard of kde-base, and the 'kde'
> metapackage, but not a 'regular' package called 'kde'.
> 2) Is a bug of level 'important' able to keep a package out of W?
1) kde is a meta package that depends on other packages but does nothing
itself.
2) no, see below.
> So now we've found the kde metapackage info, and the most important bug is
> 'important'. Is _that_ what is keeping the kde metapackage out of Woody?
No, see below.
> It takes a bug more severe than 'important' to keep a package out of
> Woody, right?
> [Can you give me a URL for where the description of what is
> required for a package to get from S > W?]
> Wrong? Does that mean an ugly font and problems with accented fonts is
> keeping this very useful metapackage out of Woody?
It takes a bug of severity serious or above to keep a package out of
Woody unless the package's depends are not yet met. (There are few other
small rules but they do not apply here.)
See this url for more details:
http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html
> If so, that seems an awfully small problem holding up a package with major
> benefits to installation efficiency, at least. That is _very_ bad, if
> true.
>
> So, what, exaxtly, needs to be done to get the kde metapackage into Woody?
> ?????
I am going to be putting meta packages into each source package for kde,
so there will be for example a kdelibs package that depends on specific
version of kdelibs3, kdelibs-bin, libarts, libarts-kde. That can then
be depended on by the kde meta-package. This will keep kde for needing
to change, and any time a new package is uploaded (like kdelibs) its meta
package will automatically be updated as well.
Does this sound good?
Chris
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