Re: tasksel: Demote task-*-desktop Depends to Recommends

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Hi Graham,

Graham Inggs <[email protected]> (2026-07-31):
> I would like to move forward with demoting task-*-desktop Depends to
> Recommends in tasksel.  The idea being to allow RC buggy packages to
> be removed from testing during the development of forky, without
> removing tasksel itself.  Once we get closer to the freeze, we can
> decide which desktops will be part of the forky release, and promote
> those task-*-desktop packages back to Depends.

I think it'd be worthy to have some community-wide awareness, as that
might lead to weird results before we get closer to the freeze (as in
non-deterministic, as alluded to in that MR's comments). Maybe through
bits from the release team with a little context so that (in particular)
desktop maintainers are not caught off guard if they haven't looked into
that topic yet?

> I would appreciate it if someone would merge [1] and upload a new
> release of tasksel.  Alternatively, you could add me to the team and I
> could make a team upload.

Invite sent.

Please note that there was a sponsorship request earlier this week, and
maybe it would make sense to have tasksel go through NEW with those new
packages, and into testing, before merging that depends-to-recommends
branch and uploading, so that it can mature as long as needed without
holding back those package additions? I would understand if you would
prefer merging and uploading everything at once though, even if the
going through NEW will still need to happen anyway.

  https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2026/07/msg00201.html

I'll let you coordinate with Holger.


Cheers,
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Cyril Brulebois ([email protected])            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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