On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > as you can read below I have recreated the Debian Junior metapackages > with more recent blends-dec to fix an issue of the location of the > tasksel file.
Thanks! > I admit I'm really concerned about the *content* of the metapackages > which remains unmaintained for several years now despite the declared > will of people to work on this at last years debconf. Sadly I have not been able to put down the time I intended when showing interest. I do think that I will have more time for it soon though. > We are simply > loosing and loosing dependencies in the metapackages since packages are > either removed from Debian or only renamed and the tasks files are not > adapted. Since nobody cares for new interesting packages we are > probably lacking a lot of interesting stuff for kids. > > The only thing that happened since last year was some discussion about > age groups. Well, there have been a few other discussions but not much work done sadly. Maybe some kind of outreach should be made to attract new people? > IMHO it does not make sense to increase our maintenance > burden with theoretical possibilities if we practically do not even > manage to maintain this very simple set of metapackages. I agree. I never interpreted the age group discussion as a primary concern. > Currently this is the list of packages which is mentioned in the tasks > but are missing from the (testing) package pool: > > lavaps > lletters (only unstable) > platinumarts-sandbox > spider > xpaint (only unstable) > > So somebody should check for replacements for lavaps, > platinumarts-sandbox and spider. Moreover it would be valuable to > verify the list of bugs of lletters and xpaint whether the RC bugs could > be fixed or whether there are some equivalent replacements. I have prepared an NMU for xpaint an uploaded it to DELAYED/10. Hopefully I have some time to also look into at least lletters soon. -- Per -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CABYrXSR1Uy2LXTsPx9e9t3wOzkJH5fv4dykPaiSyfOda=nc...@mail.gmail.com
