Re: new sections: education & metapackages

2012-06-19 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 12:55:42PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 12-06-19 at 08:48am, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > > I'm personally in favour of education because I assume that's where > > users might seek first. I have no idea whather I'm right with this > > assumption. > > > > BTW, did I

new sections: education & metapackages

2012-06-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz reads: 2.1. Version 3.9.3.0 2.4 New archive sections _education_, _introspection_, and _metapackages_ added. And now I wonder under which section to move the debian-edu* packages to: "ed

Re: New sections

2011-12-06 Thread Andreas Tille
into the education (or metapackage) > section now, if sections are bound to go away anyway? The fact that new sections are created now seems to be a sign that sections will not go away soonish, right (do you have any reference that they go at all?) > (Also we still havent release Debian Edu S

Re: New sections

2011-12-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 6. Dezember 2011, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 01:46:58PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > education, which is for education related tools that don't fit better > > metapackages, which is for metapackages so that apt can do special > Where would you like to see th

Re: New sections

2011-12-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 01:46:58PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > education, which is for education related tools that don't fit better >into any other section > > metapackages, which is for metapackages so that apt can do special > handling on them. Where would you like

Re: New sections and frontend behaviour [Was: Re: New sections]

2011-12-06 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 11:27:34AM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > There's also the problem that if a meta package removes a dependency > in a later version, that package will still stay of the system with > the current implementation. Is this really a problem? It could be perfectly OK to sim

Re: New sections and frontend behaviour [Was: Re: New sections]

2011-12-06 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 04 décembre 2011 à 23:47 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow a écrit : > The reasoning being that both metapackages and transitional packages > should have their dependencies marked as non-automatic so they don't get > removed when the top package is removed. > > I think mixing the two types

Re: New sections and frontend behaviour [Was: Re: New sections]

2011-12-05 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 08:21:50AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote: > Quoting Goswin von Brederlow (goswin-...@web.de): > > Joerg Jaspert writes: > > > > > metapackages, which is for metapackages so that apt can do special > > > handling on them. > > > > On IRC Joerg mentioned that

Re: New sections and frontend behaviour [Was: Re: New sections]

2011-12-05 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Goswin von Brederlow (goswin-...@web.de): > Joerg Jaspert writes: > > > metapackages, which is for metapackages so that apt can do special > > handling on them. > > On IRC Joerg mentioned that transitional packages could/should also go > to the metapackages section. oldlib

Re: New sections and frontend behaviour [Was: Re: New sections]

2011-12-05 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 11:47:30PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Joerg Jaspert writes: > > > metapackages, which is for metapackages so that apt can do special > > handling on them. > > On IRC Joerg mentioned that transitional packages could/should also go > to the metapacka

Re: New sections

2011-12-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Joerg Jaspert writes: > metapackages, which is for metapackages so that apt can do special > handling on them. Should this section also get transitional packages, or should those stay in oldlibs? I'm guessing the latter, but they're technically also metapackages. -- Russ Allbery

New sections and frontend behaviour [Was: Re: New sections]

2011-12-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joerg Jaspert writes: > metapackages, which is for metapackages so that apt can do special > handling on them. On IRC Joerg mentioned that transitional packages could/should also go to the metapackages section. The reasoning being that both metapackages and transitional packages s

New sections

2011-12-04 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hi following the 3 bugs I close with this mail I just created new sections in our 3 archives. That is, introspection, which is for "GObject introspection data" (or whatever other subsystem is doing something similar to it in the future) education, wh