Hi Cyril, On 21.05.2016 22:58, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > I'm very much not happy with tasksel's picking up ", and I would very much > prefer if it > would only look at its own debian-tasks.desc when running from the > installer. Any objections?
Just to clarify this, since I was the one who actually did and uploaded the change: It was not my intention to hijack the installation process. In some earlier mail on bug#758116, you mentioned that you cannot promise that you don't know if/when you have time to look into the integration of the Blends into the installer yourself [1]. For me, this sounds that we have to do it ourself if we want to get it in. And I tried it openly: The current solution was proposed in the bug#758116 [2], which was mirrored to debian-boot@l.d.o, and I asked explicitly for comments before the upload. Since no-one replied, I re-assigned the bug to src:blends (since this was the proposed place to actually fix it) and uploaded the new version with the package priority needed to get it into the basic system. I feel now a bit unhappy that there was no discussion about the topic before the upload, but I don't see what I could have done better (otherwise please give me a hint so that I can learn from it). However, as I said, that was not meant to be hijacking. If we find a better solution that does not need to include the debian-blends-tasks.desc, we can remove it. IMO it *is* however a good idea to keep tasksel using everything it finds in /usr/share/tasksel/descs/; this enables a relatively easy way to customize Debian here. Within Debian, we as a community should be able to find a solution that does not need to secure the installation process from "whatever people have managed to get into a basic system". Best regards Ole [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758116#220 [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758116#240
