Re: D-I translations: tasksel (Denis Barbier mail to -i18n)
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 07:29:16PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier) writes:
>
>
> >> You need to remove those packages. They are not part of main (Debian, that is)
> >> so tasksel cannot support them.
> >
> > Found in tasksel/tasks/README:
> > Note that while you may put non-free or contrib packages in tasks, they
> > will not propagate out to the Task fields in the Packages files in the
> > Debian archive.
>
> Since tasksel is mainly used for the debian-installer, I don't
> see the point in adding non-free entries into it, since we
> don't ship them.
I for one ran tasksel more than once in the past, and would be very
surprised if it is seldom used outside of d-i. Moreover who said
that tasksel was the only program reading these informations?
Aptitude at least uses these fields.
Denis
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