Re: Bug#543256: tasksel maintainer's perspective

2009-08-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Thursday 27 August 2009, Joey Hess wrote:
 So, that change was made in tasksel three months ago, near to the start
 what was, AFAIK at the time, a 1.5 year release cycle. This was done in
 full knowledge that enabling recommends would take some time to sort

So why did you not inform the d-cd team of that change then? And you also 
know that historically such issues have in general not been sorted out by 
d-cd maintainers proper, but more by people like you and me who's primary 
concern was D-I.

 out, including getting debian-cd to disable NORECOMMENDS and maybe
 handle recommends more intelligently; dealing with demotion of
 unnecessary recommends; and dealing with any size increase issues.

 If the current release timeframe[1] is not long enough to sort these
 issues out, perhaps the release team should be told about that. Or
 perhaps someone will want to revert this -- but you get to own all the
 issues of the installer not installing recommends while maintainers
 assume it will.

Right, so basically you're saying that you no longer want to explicitly 
list desired Recommends in tasksel and have decided to do that by simply 
dumping the problem on another team, while actively working to increase 
the problem. IMO tasksel is a much more logical place for it.

 Oddly it didn't seem to be treated as a big deal by a lot of people
 when it happened to stable CD1. :-/

Agreed. I've been very disappointed with the very long time it took to fix 
that simple issue. You'll have noticed that I jumped in straight away to 
help resolve the issue after you filed the BR as I do feel CD1 is 
important.


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Bug#543256: tasksel maintainer's perspective

2009-08-27 Thread Joey Hess
I don't appreciate the confrontational tone Frans is using in this thread, and
so will not be continuing to follow it.

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Re: Bug#543256: tasksel maintainer's perspective

2009-08-27 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 26 August 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
 I also worry what the change will mean for the total size of the
 various desktop installs. Is the 3GB check still enough? Somehow I
 doubt it.

Installing GNOME desktop currently requires 3.2GB. That's including the 
package cache. After 'aptitude clean, 2.4GB remains used.
For comparison, the same numbers for Lenny are 2.5GB and 1.8GB.

I had recommends disabled, and at first I thought maybe tasksel was 
overriding that option. But I checked and that 's not the case.

So I really shudder to think what the installed size would have been if 
I'd not disabled Recommends (with packages like gnome-office still 
missing).

/me is not at all amused


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