On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 11:44:22PM +0200, Per Andersson wrote: >> What happens with >> recursive or circular dependencies between metapackages, if that >> was the case? > > This case did not happen in the past. Since there is no code that > regards metapackages resolving (as explained in my other mail) nothing > happens at all.
Ok. >> > We could develop special tasks for children and maintain those packages >> > within the Debian Games Blend and you could simply depend on those >> > packages. The downside is that they won't show up in your web sentinel >> > for now as Andreas has already pointed out. >> >> Package resolution of metapackages seems to be solveable. > > +1 > >> Recommending software based on social aspects is hard. I don't think >> that will happen any time soon. > > +1 > >> Help is still very welcome! An easy way is to keep a look on the commits >> to the debian-junior packaging repository, reviewing those if there is >> anything to comment. > > +1 > > While I'm doing this from a technical point of view I'm afraid a look > from additional persons who are educated about the available software in > Debian (and outside Debian) is missing. Yeah, I am saving up the work done now and waiting to release some nice and peppy news to Debian project NEWS or devel-announce. Hopefully that can gain some traction. > Thanks for your work on this Thank you Andreas, for keeping Debian Junior afloat all these years. -- Per -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cabyrxst38abakogvfx7ckpyu-nmzvaqvfpsjvt0r-mrzzfq...@mail.gmail.com
