Re: D-I translations: tasksel (Denis Barbier mail to -i18n)
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:44:18AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 05:22:34PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> > You need to remove those packages. They are not part of main (Debian, that is)
> > so tasksel cannot support them.
>
> What happens if a package mentioned in a task is not available? Does an
> error will be raised or not?
No, it is simply not installed.
> If not we can just list the packages in the task, if the user had
> chosen to have also non-free entries in its sources.list then it will
> get ocaml-book and ocaml-doc, otherwise he wont.
>
> In this way we wont "promote non-free software", but simply give some
> additional selection to people that had already chosen to use non-free
> packages.
After a second look, it does not seem to work, because the Task field is
not propagated into the Packages file for non-free programs. So adding
non-free packages is currently a no-op.
Denis
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