Re: Task installability and britney

2011-11-06 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 14:37 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Adam D. Barratt wrote: Time passed, and a version of tasksel which implements the real package approach will migrate to testing in the next day or so. [...] From the britney point-of-view, I'm looking at dropping most of the current

Re: Task installability and britney

2011-08-05 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 12:57 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Adam D. Barratt wrote: In order to ensure that packages marked as key for a task remain present and installable in testing, britney uses a generated faux package which depends on each of the packages. [...] We've therefore been looking

Re: Task installability and britney

2011-08-05 Thread Joey Hess
Adam D. Barratt wrote: Time passed, and a version of tasksel which implements the real package approach will migrate to testing in the next day or so. joeyh / -boot - could you confirm that the task overrides {can,should} be dropped (and thus the fields removed from the Packages files for

Task installability and britney

2011-02-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
Hi, In order to ensure that packages marked as key for a task remain present and installable in testing, britney uses a generated faux package which depends on each of the packages. This approach has, with the odd minor niggle, worked fine for some time but breaks down as soon as the set of

Re: Task installability and britney

2011-02-17 Thread Joey Hess
Adam D. Barratt wrote: In order to ensure that packages marked as key for a task remain present and installable in testing, britney uses a generated faux package which depends on each of the packages. This approach has, with the odd minor niggle, worked fine for some time but breaks down as

Re: Task installability and britney

2011-02-17 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 12:57 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Adam D. Barratt wrote: [the gnome task depends on gdm3, the xfce and lxde tasks depend on gdm; gdm and gdm3 conflict] That's unfortunate. I doubt that the light desktop tasks will continue to use gdm for too long, as it seems unlikely gdm 2

Re: Task installability and britney

2011-02-17 Thread Joey Hess
Adam D. Barratt wrote: The basic implementation on the britney side exists (in my local setup) since a few hours ago, after I tinkered with it during my lunch break. The interesting work of extracting the information required from the version of tasksel-data currently in unstable already