Re: Disappearing task-* packages!

2001-09-26 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 01:04:12PM -0500, Taral wrote:
 All the task-* packages seem to be missing from the main Packages file!
 Where did they go?

the dumpster.

 P.S. If this was announced, perhaps the announcement should have gone to
 the debian-devel-announce list?

its been discussed in various places.  task- packages are a ugly
kludge that have been replaced by a proper implementation: the Task:
feild of the control file, the new tasksel uses this now instead of
task- packages.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/


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RE: Disappearing task-* packages!

2001-09-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry

On 25-Sep-2001 Taral wrote:
 All the task-* packages seem to be missing from the main Packages file!
 Where did they go?
 
 P.S. If this was announced, perhaps the announcement should have gone to
 the debian-devel-announce list?
 

Task packages are deprecated, tasksel now handles them.  This was announced
several months back.