On 28. juni 2010 13:59, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Sascha Silbe] >> The problem with this package is that it misleads users into >> installing it and turning their system into something that works >> differently (LTSP) from what they expect (a regular desktop). > > This do not sound right. There is nothing related ot LTSP in the > education-desktop-sugar meta package. > >> See the original bug description: >> >> === Begin === >> Please remove education-desktop-sugar from sid/squeeze. It depends on >> obsolete package names and confuses users. >> The description suggests this is what to install to get a complete Sugar >> installation on a desktop, whereas it will actually install the Debian >> Edu suite (+ Sugar). One user even reported it "will hose your boot" (the >> system hung part-way through the boot process - unfortunately no more >> details are available as he was in a hurry and overwrote the installation >> with Fedora afterwards in order to get a working Sugar installation). >> === End === >> >> If someone cares about this package enough to maintain it, changing the >> description (to point out that it's LTSP + Sugar, not Sugar on a desktop) >> and updating the dependencies should be enough. But without an active >> maintainer removing the package is the best option and should be done >> ASAP. > > It isn't LTSP + Sugar. Where did you get that idea? The task is for > Sugar on a Debian Edu desktop. The problem is that there are very few > sugar packages in Debian (both testing and unstable). If the package > lists in education-desktop-sugar is wrong, please provide information > on exactly what is wrong. >
I suspect he mixed LTSP and EDU. and that he was supried that he got Debian EDU + Sugar. even tho that is the intention of this package. it may be confusing since the description does not explicitly mentions Debian Edu. Ronny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
