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

Hi Graham,

Am 31=2E Juli 2026 12:43:56 MESZ schrieb Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian=2Eor=
g>:
>Hi Graham,
>
>Graham Inggs <ginggs@debian=2Eorg> (2026-07-31):
>> I would like to move forward with demoting task-*-desktop Depends to
>> Recommends in tasksel=2E  The idea being to allow RC buggy packages to
>> be removed from testing during the development of forky, without
>> removing tasksel itself=2E  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=2E

If we agree on this path, I'm fine with merging/uploading of course (no is=
sues from my side)=2E

>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)=2E 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?

Sounds good to me=2E

>> I would appreciate it if someone would merge [1] and upload a new
>> release of tasksel=2E  Alternatively, you could add me to the team and =
I
>> could make a team upload=2E
>
>Invite sent=2E

So well, welcome to the team :-)

>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=2E
>
>  https://lists=2Edebian=2Eorg/debian-boot/2026/07/msg00201=2Ehtml
>
>I'll let you coordinate with Holger=2E

Given the nature of your MR changes, it looks senseful to me, that we make=
 this in a separate version/upload=2E

That being said, and since you are a DD, it would be cool, if you could do=
 the pending upload (NEW included) I asked for in the above quoted call ;-)=
)


Thanks!

Holger


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