Hi, On Monday 21 April 2008 14:23, Andreas Tille wrote: > Rationale: > The meta packages are builded using the cdd-dev toolkit that verifies > the available packages in a given distribution. A list of packages > that is specifies in so called tasks files for each meta package is > parsed and it is verified that the packages really exist in the target > distribution (in this case it would be "Lenny"). In case the package > is available in Lenny a package is added as "Recommends" if not it > is decreased to "Suggests" to make the meta package installable and > fullfil the Realease goal to have all Recommends resolved. > > Because before the freese of packages some packages might be added > to or removed from testing so it makes no sense to build the final > Debian Med meta packages before the freeze. That's why I would like > to build the Debian Med source that produces the med-* meta packages > right after the freeze. > > What do you think about this?
The same is true for the packages build from the debian-edu source package, so
I would like to hear the RMs opinion about this as well.
Thanks to Andreas for bringing this up.
regards,
Holger
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