> ==== RESOLUTION ==== > > Background > > The blends-tasks package was uploaded in April 2016 setting its priority to > important. The result of this change was that the package started getting > automatically installed by debootstrap, with the intended effect of causing > the list of tasks shipped by the package to be displayed by tasksel in the > debian-installer. > > Even though the debian-installer maintainer complained in May 2016 that he > did not agree with this approach with regards to including external > packages in the default tasksel screen, the important priority remains > until today. > > In December 2016, changes were made in the tasksel package so that it no > longer automatically displays external tasks as part of the > debian-installer. > > The current state is that chroots created by debootstrap in unstable or > testing include the blends-tasks package, although the shipped tasks are > not getting displayed during the default installation. > > In #846002, the Technical Committee was asked by Holger Levsen to rule on > the priority of the blends-tasks package. In the discussion that followed, > the Committee was asked by Ole Streicher to additionally rule on whether > the Blends selection should be part of the Debian Stretch installer and who > should maintain the list of options displayed to the user in the future. > > Using the power of the Technical Committee to make a decision when asked to > do so (§6.1.3): > > 1. We acknowledge that the decision of which tasks to display during > installation falls within the jurisdiction of the debian-installer > maintainers. > > 2. In the Committee's opinion the use of important priority is not > appropriate for the blends-tasks package according to the definition in the > Debian policy (§2.5). As it was set only as a means to an end, and since > it no longer does what was intended, we recommend that this change gets > reverted. > > 3. We encourage the debian-installer maintainers to work together with other > teams -including the blends-tasks maintainers- to provide useful and > popular package selections through the debian-installer in future releases. > > ==== END OF RESOLUTION ====
I vote A > FD -- OdyX
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