Hi Graham, Am 31. Juli 2026 12:43:56 MESZ schrieb Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]>: >Hi Graham, > >Graham Inggs <[email protected]> (2026-07-31): >> I would like to move forward with demoting task-*-desktop Depends to >> Recommends in tasksel. The idea being to allow RC buggy packages to >> be removed from testing during the development of forky, without >> removing tasksel itself. Once we get closer to the freeze, we can >> decide which desktops will be part of the forky release, and promote >> those task-*-desktop packages back to Depends.
If we agree on this path, I'm fine with merging/uploading of course (no issues from my side). >I think it'd be worthy to have some community-wide awareness, as that >might lead to weird results before we get closer to the freeze (as in >non-deterministic, as alluded to in that MR's comments). Maybe through >bits from the release team with a little context so that (in particular) >desktop maintainers are not caught off guard if they haven't looked into >that topic yet? Sounds good to me. >> I would appreciate it if someone would merge [1] and upload a new >> release of tasksel. Alternatively, you could add me to the team and I >> could make a team upload. > >Invite sent. So well, welcome to the team :-) >Please note that there was a sponsorship request earlier this week, and >maybe it would make sense to have tasksel go through NEW with those new >packages, and into testing, before merging that depends-to-recommends >branch and uploading, so that it can mature as long as needed without >holding back those package additions? I would understand if you would >prefer merging and uploading everything at once though, even if the >going through NEW will still need to happen anyway. > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2026/07/msg00201.html > >I'll let you coordinate with Holger. Given the nature of your MR changes, it looks senseful to me, that we make this in a separate version/upload. That being said, and since you are a DD, it would be cool, if you could do the pending upload (NEW included) I asked for in the above quoted call ;-)) Thanks! Holger -- Sent from /e/ OS on Fairphone3
