Hi Simon, all, On 30-08-2022 14:48, Simon McVittie wrote:
If armel is a candidate for being a release architecture, then I think that leaves two-and-a-half options:
In the last couple of releases, we have been bad at taking decisions on this front, so lets assume it is (although this issue is another push in the direction of dropping).
1. task-gnome-desktop is uninstallable on this architecture
I have briefly checked with kibi on IRC and we currently think this is acceptable.
1a. or Bastien's suggestion: task-gnome-desktop is installable on this
architecture, but the preinst fails on baseline CPUs
2. task-gnome-desktop installs something that is not the full GNOME
desktop on this architecture
I would personally prefer 1., but last time I tried this (for s390x),
it was blocked by the release machinery not allowing any task package to
be uninstallable on any release architecture, even if the task doesn't
really make sense there. So I am going to work towards 2., unless the
release team tells me that 1. can be made to work.
So, it'd say, let's try if we can do that (1). Looking at bug #906016 IIUC it was mostly stalled on some input from our side, not really because of machinery being unpersuasive.
Paul
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