Bug#513296: debian-science: Please add science-all meta-package

[Andreas Tille]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Chris Walker wrote:

>>   1. Simple but ugly solution: Just adding a task 'all' to the currently
>>      existing tasks and add all meta packages just in the science source
>>      package.
>
> Unless the science metapackages will be uploaded again for lenny, this
> is moot for the current release.

Yes.  BTW - I plan an upload to experimental which builds against the
new blends-dev package (also in experimental).  In principle there should
not much problems occure - but the additional metapackages are requiring
editing the override file so we will face a delay for the availability
anyway and I would like to make a "controled move" from all blends
metapackages at the same time and so I use experimental as "sandbox" for
this first.  I also would like to wait for the Lenny release before
introducing massive changes.

>>      Effect regarding package creation:
>>       - Closes the bug.  Should work so far for science.  Has no effect
>>         to other Blends (which might like to build Live-CDs as well).
>
> I think that the automatic solution proposed below is better - but
> that you should implement this as a temporary workaround until someone
> gets around to implementing the better solution. This gets the problem
> off Daniel's back and onto ours - and it is easier for us to do the
> work too.

Well, I'm not fully convinced but if Daniel considers the problem as
really urgent I would consider a compromise.  On the other hand a simple

$ ls tasks | awk '{ print "science-"$1 }'
science-astronomy
science-astronomy-dev
science-biology
science-chemistry
science-dataacquisition
science-electronics
science-engineering
science-engineering-dev
science-geography
science-imageanalysis
science-linguistics
science-mathematics
science-mathematics-dev
science-numericalcomputation
science-physics
science-robotics
science-statistics
science-typesetting
science-viewing

gives you all science metapackage names and if you include the
output in the live CD building config (or we base a very simple
script which provides the really needed form) a temporary solution
can be found as well.

> Unless you plan to release a new version of the science packages in
> time for lenny,

I would be really stupid if I would have such plans ... ;-))

> then there is no immediate hurry, but we should bear
> the pain rather than Daniel.

Sure.  I would like to care for means that reduces Daniels pain
to a minimum.  We should just decide which means are really reasonable.

Kind regards

           Andreas.

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