Bug#1086819: task-gnome-flashback-desktop: dependency on transitional network-manager-gnome

[Holger Wansing]

Hi,

Simon McVittie <smcv at debian.org> wrote (Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:33:07 +0000):
> On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 at 21:05:38 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
> > Instead of maintaining a list of packages per desktop in tasksel (thus
> > in task-*-desktop), managed by the installer-team (that has no deep insight,
> > which package makes sense to be included in the respective desktops), we 
> > would like to move to one (or more) meta packages per desktop, which are 
> > maintained by the respective desktop teams, and that tasksel depends on.
> 
> (Please keep the maintainers of gnome-flashback in Cc when discussing
> this - I am not one of them)

ACK.

> I agree this would be a good improvement, but GNOME Flashback doesn't
> currently seem to have a suitable metapackage: the package named
> gnome-flashback is an implementation detail rather than a metapackage, and
> gnome-session-flashback seems to be intended to be the equivalent of
> gnome-session, which is "smaller" than a complete desktop
> metapackage. Adding a metapackage would require a trip through NEW,
> for some source package.

My proposal might require a new meta package to be created, yes.

> I would prefer this to *not* be part of src:meta-gnome3, because most
> uploaders of meta-gnome3 are concentrating on GNOME itself and are not
> thinking about the GNOME Flashback spinoff. In practice, the primary
> maintainer of GNOME Flashback in Debian seems to be Dmitry Shachnev.
> 
> It seems to me that doing this restructuring is orthogonal to whether
> the existing task package has a dependency on a transitional package:
> either one can be fixed without affecting the other.

That's correct of course.
This bugreport simply reminded my, that I planned to sent out such proposal.


Holger


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