Hi Holger, Thanks for working on this, it's been left undone for way too long (which makes me feel guilty, as I really ought to have managed to do more to make it happen, so I really appreciate that you're working on it).
Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> writes: > If someone wants to give it a try, to see how it looks like: > I have a branch > https://salsa.debian.org/holgerw/pkgsel-install-blendsel-unconditionally > where blendsel is installed automatically together with tasksel, and > blendsel's dialog appears automatically after the tasksel run has finished. I can see why you opted to put blendsel there from the point of view of it being minimally invasive, but I think that after tasksel is too late for blend selection. Some blends may want to do things like preseed the desktop, or change preferences for disk partitioning, or do other more radical things to the way D-I works. Debian-Edu's installer looks quite different at the tasksel stage for instance: https://openqa.debian.net/tests/320732#step/edu_profile/1 and the only thing before that in the Debian-Edu installer is locale selection, so if we wanted to be able to offer Debian-Edu as a blend we'd need to be asking about blends very early on, presumably immediately after locale selection. I would hope to have time to contribute some effort to helping make this happen in the near future, and am much more likely to get round to it if prodded, so please ask if there's anything I can help with. In particular, I'll be happy to set up openqa tests for attempts to get things working, and modify the existing tests so we can show that D-I still works with this in place. I can also help you with getting openqa-link setup, so that you can launch your own tests from salsa's CI. Cheers, Phil. -- Philip Hands -- https://hands.com/~phil
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