Hi all, I want to create a new Debian Blend -- Debian Astro --, and I am unsure about what it means technically. What I did now is to ITP a "debian-astro" package for tasksel:
http://bugs.debian.org/799137 The package development is in our git: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-astro/packages/debian-astro.git git://anonscm.debian.org/debian-astro/packages/debian-astro.git I started to create a few metapackages by re-sorting what I found in the debian-science/astronomy and debian-science/astronomy-dev tasks. This is not finished yet; I am still quite unsure about which metapackages are useful on a longer run. However, I also don't know how to start from a technical side: * Could someone have a look on the package (in the git repository) and give me some hints what is missing there? Or (if it is simple) just correct it? * What else would I need to do to get them somehow integrated? For the metapackages, I am a bit unsure about how they are used currently and in future: One use if probably to generate the package lists on debian-blends.d.o. Another is to serve as metapackages for direct install or via tasksel, right? This is fine for f.e. a package like "debian-astro/python": the use is that someone who wants to do astronomy with Python can get all available packages installed in one step (they do not overlap much in functionality). But, for a metapackage like "debian-astro/viewers", this would not make much sense: Viewers usually overlap in their functionality, and people tend to install not all available viewers, but just one or two of them. So, is a "viewers" task still useful? There was some rumor that the Blends task selection gets integrated into the Debian installer -- what is the status here? What else (also non-technical) would I/we need to prepare? Best regards Ole
