[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox tasks and metapackage

[Sunil Mohan Adapa]

Hello,

FreedomBox has been a Debian Pure Blend for quite sometime now with all
necessary bits present in the Debian repositories. However, it has not
been using the blends framework. I believe it would be good to start
using the blends framework.

There two main reasons I see for do this:

- FreedomBox can join other blends in getting listed in the Debian
Installer whenever that happens. This would increase the ease of
installation for users installing FreedomBox after installing Debian. It
would also provide more exposure to the project.

- The task and bug pages that all blends have will help FreedomBox focus
better on new packaging tasks and identifying areas of contribution with
existing packages. Currently, we only have a wiki page[1] that is
slightly less static.

The core packages needed by FreedomBox are already dependencies of the
'freedombox' package. Additional apps are selected by the user from the
FreedomBox web interface. Despite this difference compared to other
blends, the above reasons seem good enough to start using the blends
framework.

I have started creating the blends metapackage[2]. This git repository
can be hosted by the FreedomBox project and shared with the blends team
(or vice versa).

I am looking for feedback and suggestions.

Links:

1) https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/LeavingTheCloud

2) https://salsa.debian.org/sunilmohan/debian-fbx

-- 
Sunil Mohan Adapa
FreedomBox Team

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