Hi, Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> (2019-03-02): > On Tue, 05 Feb 2019 at 10:16:56 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > > > > * Require task-gnome-desktop to be installable on s390x, but modify > > > > meta-gnome3 so that on s390x, gnome-core installs something that is > > > > not > > > > the full GNOME 3 desktop used on other architectures, for example > > > > the GNOME-2-derived gnome-session-flashback > > In the absence of other progress, I've staged this in git. I'll release > it soon if nobody else in the team gets there first. The resulting > metapackage appears to be installable on a s390x buster qemu VM with only > sid as an apt source (so, only able to see the version of gjs in sid that > we want to migrate, and not the one in buster that we want to supersede). > > On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 at 18:10:01 +0100, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > My worry if I were to do that is that the installer would still offer to > > install > > GNOME on s390x, and I don't know what would happen if one chose that (I > > suppose > > apt would realise it's uninstallable and give a proper error, but maybe > > things > > would explode). > > > > So if we're going to make task-gnome-desktop uninstallable there, maybe the > > installer shouldn't offer to install it, and that needs changes somewhere in > > tasksel or d-i. > > Some questions whose answers I think might be relevant to determining > how much effort is justifiable here: > > * Do s390x users install with debian-installer? > * If so, do they install desktop tasks that way? > * Does GNOME (the desktop, as opposed to individual apps) work on s390x > in earlier Debian releases? (If, as I suspect, the answer is "we don't > know, nobody has tried it" then that is itself useful information.)
I don't have any answers here. My searching debian-boot@ for “s390x” in the body and “installation-report” in the subject returned this small list of bug reports: #575682, #296930, #608407, #694771, #851790, #859889, #923524 (which you know about…). Anyway, just to confirm: if one hacks an archive to get gnome-core out of the amd64's Packages file, tasksel (run from a chroot rather than from d-i, configured with this hacked repository) still lists the gnome desktop task as an available option… Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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