Re: Tasks policy

2001-05-09 Thread Anthony Towns
On Tue, May 08, 2001 at 11:04:34PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Anthony Towns wrote: Or moving them into the task package themselves, but not in the control record? Or shall we just forget I suggested that originally. Well, I had. Well, it's possible I wasn't explicit enough. What I said was:

Bug#96873: virtual-package names, ladspa-host and ladspa-plugin

2001-05-09 Thread Junichi Uekawa
Package: debian-policy Severity: wishlist I would like to propose ladspa-host and ladspa-plugin as names of virtual packages which ladspa-host: application capable of using ladspa-plugins to process audio data ladspa-plugin: provides plug-in libraries in accordance to the ladspa

Re: Defaults for satisfying dependencies - ordering gone?

2001-05-09 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd rather that be the official mechanism so we can reduce the number of dependency elemenets. Sounds fair. What does dselect (in general, an apt front-end) when there's no alternative with a higher priority? Wasn't that the reason for the

tasks: counterproposal (and implimentation)

2001-05-09 Thread Joey Hess
Attached to this message is a tarball which contains a rather simple program that uses debconf to present the user with a list of tasks (sorted into groups). To try it, upgrade to debconf 0.9.53 (Incoming) [1], unpack, and run newtasksel/tasksel -t newtasksel/tasklist (or see [2] at the very end