Hi, Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> wrote (Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:33:07 +0000): > On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 at 21:05:38 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote: > > Instead of maintaining a list of packages per desktop in tasksel (thus > > in task-*-desktop), managed by the installer-team (that has no deep insight, > > which package makes sense to be included in the respective desktops), we > > would like to move to one (or more) meta packages per desktop, which are > > maintained by the respective desktop teams, and that tasksel depends on. > > (Please keep the maintainers of gnome-flashback in Cc when discussing > this - I am not one of them)
ACK. > I agree this would be a good improvement, but GNOME Flashback doesn't > currently seem to have a suitable metapackage: the package named > gnome-flashback is an implementation detail rather than a metapackage, and > gnome-session-flashback seems to be intended to be the equivalent of > gnome-session, which is "smaller" than a complete desktop > metapackage. Adding a metapackage would require a trip through NEW, > for some source package. My proposal might require a new meta package to be created, yes. > I would prefer this to *not* be part of src:meta-gnome3, because most > uploaders of meta-gnome3 are concentrating on GNOME itself and are not > thinking about the GNOME Flashback spinoff. In practice, the primary > maintainer of GNOME Flashback in Debian seems to be Dmitry Shachnev. > > It seems to me that doing this restructuring is orthogonal to whether > the existing task package has a dependency on a transitional package: > either one can be fixed without affecting the other. That's correct of course. This bugreport simply reminded my, that I planned to sent out such proposal. Holger -- Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> PGP-Fingerprint: 496A C6E8 1442 4B34 8508 3529 59F1 87CA 156E B076
