Hi, In order to ensure that packages marked as "key" for a task remain present and installable in testing, britney uses a generated "faux" package which depends on each of the packages. This approach has, with the odd minor niggle, worked fine for some time but breaks down as soon as the set of packages involved are not completely coinstallable; this is now the case due to the gnome-desktop task indirectly depending on gdm3, and the xfce and lxde desktop tasks depending on gdm. The net effect is that the faux package becomes useless for the purpose of determining installability of the set of key packages, as it is itself uninstallable.
We've therefore been looking at splitting the single faux package in to a set of faux packages, one per task. This maintains the overall property of requiring all of the packages to be installable but only requires that the packages within each task are co-installable; if there are particular combinations of tasks which are expected / desired to remain co-installable then we could add further faux packages depending on sets of the task packages. Comments on or problems with the above welcome. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/6a041fd7c998cd418d362973020d5db8.squir...@adsl.funky-badger.org
