* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041004 00:40]: > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 02:53:57PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > We would still list everything in recommends. There were many reasons why I > > moved all contents of these tasks to the recommends field, including: > > > - Getting the packages into testing, which was previously apparently > > impossible. > > - Avoiding the common problem with task packages that if you remove > > one package in the task, you have to remove the task package as > > well, since its dependecies are then broken. > > - As part of the phasing out of the old reason for the old-type task > > packages; selection of the packages in these tasks are not handled at > > the tasksel level by recommends fields ayway, but by tasksel package > > lists in the education-tasks package. The new task packages will > > mostly be useful for post-install sysadmin and upgrade purposes.
> The first two of these advantages would no longer be present if britney > treated Recommends the same way as it treats Depends, which is why I > ask. I think missing Recommends should _not_ be tracked by britney, but "just" being RC-buggy (about the same level as missing build dependencies). Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ PGP 1024/89FB5CE5 DC F1 85 6D A6 45 9C 0F 3B BE F1 D0 C5 D1 D9 0C
