Bug#812358: debian-live: Please add gparted
On Jan 26, 2016 5:21 PM, Don Raikes <DON.RAIKES@ORACLE.COM> wrote:
> When I do
> $ apt-get live-images
>
> From within jesse, I see a /usr/share/live/images/rescue folder and except for about 4 packages it seems to build fine.
>
> Couldn't we just fixup those few packages and/or remove them from the package-list and be good?
>
> Or is this more a matter of debian has decided to go a different direction with tasksel-* and blends?
How you come up with the list is not as important as having a team independent of the live team to make them into one or more metapackages and maintain them. Even whether you call that a blend or not is not as important as having people make that commitment of long term maintainership of rescue.
Rescue was trimmed from live-images in the first place because it doesn't fit with the goal of those images, which was to provide live flavors equivalent to what a user would get by default installing Debian. The live team has no special interest in being the arbiter of what does it does not go into each image on a package by package basis. That's better suited to a blend, with a special interest in serving a particular group of users with a common set of needs.
Ben
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