On 16.V.2001 at 22:43 Joey Hess wrote: > + > + <p> > + You should not tag any packages as belonging to a task before > + this has been discussed on the `debian-devel' mailing list and > + a consensus about doing that has been reached. > + </p>
A consensus is not always possible. Some resolution mechanism is needed in case that there is no consensus. For example what display manager we will choose: gdm, kdm, wdm or xdm? Maybe gdm, because it provides session menu, but it looks to me a little buggy. I'm giving this only as an example. Surely there will be conflicts. Moreover, too many packages have to use the Task field. Do you want a discution for all of them in debian-devel? Is the override mechanism suposed to be only a temporary solution? A maintainer can and may not be aware of the needs of some task. An example: why the maintainer of recode should know that some of the filters of magicfilter needs recode and that magicfilter belongs to the task printing? (Actually I have wrote that again only as an example. If you want I will make ITP of meta-magicfilter, meta-apsfilter and maybe meta-cups. Then one of these three metapackages will belong to the task `Printing'. Or maybe it is better to have more than one task for printing?) Anton Zinoviev, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
