Re: cleaning up our task packages

["James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>]

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

>So how's this:
>
>  Task Packages
>  -------------
>
>  Any package whose name begins with `task-' is known as a "task
>  package". Task packages are intended to help a new user install a set of
>  packages which they need to perform a specific task. Since a list of all
>  task packages is presented during new Debian installations, task packages
>  should only exist for common tasks for which a user may plausibly want to
>  use a newly installed Debian system.
>
>  Before a new task package is added to Debian, the new package must
>  be discussed on the debian-devel mailing list to ensure that it meets
>  these guidelines. The current list of approved task packages follows:
>
>  ...
>
>(If we accepted this, then we'd use its procedure to discuss each of the
>existing task packages, add those that were accepted to the list, and
>file bugs on the rest.)

Excellent.  I second this proposal.

		     - Jim Van Zandt